28 JANUARY 1966, page 20

Lunch With A Famous British Poet

The Snow Queen has grown an icicle And sets herself up as King. The chill-grey oyster eyes, gone dead, Stare incommunicado 'mid the nippy adjectives. All other poets perish in......

A Professional In Politics

By ROBERT BLAKE P ALMERSTON has been ill served by his bio- graphers, and a definitive work based on his papers remains to be written yet. Dr. South- gate's study* is, however,......