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Editor's note: ...This Vital Flesh is now reissued, as the first volume in this series, not only because its text is so clearly established, but also because the poet himself considered it the most significant of his works from the philosophical point of view, and stated further that in parts of it he came nearest to satisfying his own conscience as a poet. The present edition is printed with identical pagination and actually from the type of the limited edition of 1939, which has been kept standing for that purpose for twenty-two years...P. R. S. Sydney, 1961.(v-viii).