A study of the works of Delius, this volume studiously avoids biography and biographical criticism (indeed, the first sentence is "This is not a biography"). In his avoidance of biography, though, Hall suggests a traditional and somewhat opposite view of biography to that being produced by the other more experimental texts published by the Press when he argues that " if the details relating to the biography of a contemporary composer are definite beyond discussion, the same cannot be said in respect to the critical attitude which one should adopt towards his work." (5).