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For He's A Jolly Nice Fellow

P. J. Kavanagh EDMUND BLUNDEN by Barry Webb Yale, £18.50, pp. 360 A rtists need not be rebels; think of T. S. Eliot, sombre in his bank, Emily Dickinson, prim in her bedroom.......

Artemis And Actaeon They Were Both Hunters. Actaeon Came...

Artemi.s bathing and he spied upon her. To punish him she turned him into a stag and he was torn to pieces by his own hounds. Afterwards we came upon the letters — About a month......

On The Right Side Of The Thirties

Christopher Hawtree RED LETTER DAYS by Andrew Croft Lawrence &Wishart, £19.95, pp. 352 ubtitled 'British fiction in the 1930s', this is a study of some novels published in that......

The Heart's Location

All my plans for suicide are ridiculous: I can never remember the heart's location. Too cheap to smash the car, too queasy to slash a wrist — once jumped off a bridge, almost......