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Firework Display

A Precocious Autobiography. By Yevgeny Yev- tushenko. Translated by Andrew R. Mac- Andrew. (Collins and Harvill, 16s.) THE last time I saw Yevtushenko was when I stopped him......

Gilded Bankrupts

The Poet and the Gilded Age : Social Themes in Late 19th Centdry American Verse. By Robert H. Walker. (Pennsylvania Uni- versity Press and O.U.P., 60s.) MR. WALKER proposes to......

Top Of The Maithili Pops

Love-Songs of Vidyapati. Translated by Deben Bhattacharya. Edited by W. G. Archer. (Allen and Unwin, 30s.) THERE ought to be, and are, more reasons than the necessary......