Anthony Burgess (1917 .) p. ) is a well-known English writer, author of many novels (including The Clockwork Orange), stories, film scripts. He is also a researcher of Shakespeare's work .. In the 1968 story "Muse", Burgess depicts the flight of Paley, the literary critic of the future, to the past, to England during the time of Queen Elizabeth I. However, as the story shows, such England exists only in the imagination, and not in reality. The author with obvious irony refers to the possibility of penetrating into the secrets of the creative process. This story is a kind of parody of the genre of science fiction.