11 MAY 1991, page 35

Not Quite Forging The Links

Fiona Maddocks MOZART AND VIENNA by H. C. Robbins Landon Thames & Hudson, f16.95, pp. 208 S ome books are bad because they are badly written. Some are bad because, to put it no......

Books

Resisting most temptations Rupert Christiansen GOETHE: THE POET AND THE AGE, VOLUME I, THE POETRY OF DESIRE by Nicholas Boyle OUP, £25, pp. 807 T he British, I think, long ago......