issuing a new edition with several new poems, we bow to this verdict and give The Spires of Oxford its place in the forefront of the volume". Her poem "The Deserter" (written in 1916), describing the feelings and fate of a man terrified by the war, is often used in collections of World War I poetry. Knockmaroon (1933) is a series of essays and poems about Ireland that opens with Letts’s reminiscences about her summers with grandparents on the outskirts of Phoenix Park. She includes a number of character sketches of Irish people of all classes and often refers to the events of the decade after the Anglo-Irish Treaty as “the Troublesome Times”. Nonetheless, the book is primarily pastoral in imagery, ranging descriptively over impressions of landscape and architecture. Letts also includes several chapters on gardening and garden books, confessing, “My secret ambition has always been to write a garden book”. Knockmaroon gathered together a series of essays previously published in Cornhill, the Spectator, the Manchester Guardian, the Irish Review, the Irish Statesman, Month, and Country Life. Works Fiction and poetry The Story-Spinner. Illustrated by F. Gardner. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1907. Waste Castle (a book for girls). Illustrated by John Jellico. London & Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1907. Reprinted by Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., London, 1916, 1918, 1920. Bridget of All Work. Illustrated by James Durden. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Diana Dethroned. London: John Lane, 1909. The Quest of the Blue Rose. Illustrated by James Durden. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. Reprinted by Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford, London, 1926. The Rough Way. London: Wells Gardner & Co. [1912]. Naughty Sophia. Illustrated by Ruby Lind. London: Grant Richards 1912. Reprinted by London: The Richards Press, 1949. The Mighty Army: Lives of the Saints. Illustrated by Stephen Reid. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1912. Songs of Leinster. London: John Murray, 1913. Reprinted 1916, 5th rep. 1923; 6th rep. 1938; with a new edition by Dundalgan Press, Dundalk, Ireland: 1947. Helmet & Cowl: Stories of Monastic and Military Orders. With Mary F. S. Letts. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1914. Christina’s Son. London: Wells Gardner & Co. 1915. Hallow-e'en and Poems of the War. London: John Murray, 1916. The Spires of Oxford, And Other Poems. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1917. Corporal’s Corner. London: Wells Gardner & Co.