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Pound For Pound

Peter Ackroyd Ezra Pound: The Last Rower C. David Heymann (Faber and Faber £5.95) It is natural and just that Ezra Pound should baffle his critics. He is the greatest poet of......

Secret History

Robert Skidelsky The British Revolution: British Politics 18 80.-1939. Vol 1. From Gladstone to Asquith 1880-1914 Robert Rhodes James (Hamish Hamilton E7.50) The main puzzle......