Introduction
PART I: History
1 Servant poets: an ode on a dishclout
2 W. H. Auden and the servants
3 The uses of Clio
4 An education
5 W. H. Auden and me
6 Caesura: a worker reads history and a historian writes poetry
PART II: Historiography
7 Makers of history
8 Homage to Clio
9 The ridiculous historian's hopes
Conclusion
Index