21 JANUARY 1966, page 17

Mp For Hull

The Art of Marvell's Poetry. By J. B. Leishman. (Hutchinson, 50s.) THE poetry of Andrew Marvell reveals a mind of astonishing complexity. His dozen or so great lyrics repeatedly......

The Antic Hay

Ma. ROVERE, who 'covers' Washington for the New Yorker, has had the good idea of re- printing some of his pieces on the Goldwater crusade and the 'genial' idea of calling it The......

Addison's Spectator

By J. H. PLUMB I T is easy to forget the turbulence of seven- teenth-century society : not only its civil wars, plots, executions, but also the casual violence which was so......