of the poetry towards a striking final image, as in the short "Essex Salt-Marsh". Now the tide’s task is done, Marsh runnels turn and chuckling run Or come to a standstill, The level ground for them a breathless hill. And as they run or faint Through mud that takes the sunset’s paint, The gullies they have worn Shine as with purple grapes and golden corn. There were several musical settings of his poetry, including the incidental music composed by Imogen Holst for his play Nicodemus (1937). "Christmas Day" from his collection Speak to the Earth (1939) also proved popular with composers and was set by Mervyn Roberts (1947), Robin Milford (1949), Neil Butterworth (1954), and Elizabeth Poston (1967). The work of his later years included the two long religious poems of Out of the World and Back (1958), highly regarded at the time, and several prose works dealing with botany and the landscape. His literary reputation was being fostered in these years by Leonard Clark, who made selections and collections of his poetry between 1959 and 1974. Thereafter his daughter, who had married the poet Edward Lowbury, continued the work. Recognition of Young's writing came slowly. The Royal Society of Literature awarded him the Benson Medal in 1939 and gave him an honorary fellowship in 1951. In that year too he received an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh and, in the following year, was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Works Songs of Night (1910) Boaz and Ruth (1920) The death of Eli (1921) Thirty One Poems (1922) The Cuckoo Clock (1922) The Adversary (1923) - verse plays The Bird Cage (1926) The New Shepherd (1931) Winter Harvest (1933) The White Blackbird (1935) Collected Poems (1936, Cape) Nicodemus (1937) - verse play Speak to the Earth (1939) A Prospect of Flowers (1944) - prose The Green Man (1947) A Retrospect of Flowers (1950) - prose Collected Poems (1950, Cape) Into Hades (1952) A Prospect of Britain (1956) - prose Out of the World and Back (1958) Quiet as Moss: 36 Poems (1959, 1967) - selection by Leonard Clark Collected Poems (1960, Hart-Davis) The Poet and the Landscape (1962) - prose Burning as Light: 37 poems (1967) - selection by Leonard Clark The New Poly-Olbion (1967) - prose poems Posthumous publications The Poetic Jesus (SPCK, London 1972) - prose Complete Poems (Secker & Warburg, London 1974) Andrew Young