John Masefield Peter Ronayne Katie lay in the snow

Katie lay in the snow outside their cabin

regardless of the patient's presenting problems

As a guide to treatment

and how to act

In Power and Restraint

John Masefield Peter Ronayne Katie lay in the snowBefore she published her distinguished novels, Muriel Spark first made her name as a critic and poet. Her discerning study of the poet and novelist John Masfield will therefore be doubly welcome, as an example of her earlier work, and as one of the best introductions to Masefield. With characteristic insight, Spark shows Masfields development as a storyteller, through his early lyrics to his long narrative poems and finally his prose, together with