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A Whimsical Explanation Of Disillusion

Robert Silver A CLIMATE FOR APPEASEMENT by Terence L. Lewis Peter Lang, New York, £28, pp. 234 I have just spent nine months in Cam- bridge probing links between British foreign......

Poetry As Wisdom Or News Service

John Henshall BEDOUIN POETRY FROM SINAI AND THE NEGEV: MIRROR OF A CULTURE by Clinton Bailey Clarendon Press, £60, pp. 473 h e tinselled razzmatazz of contempo- rary life has......

New Year

We opened the front door. The wakeful house Threw yellow rhombs out on the silvered lawn. The air was utterly still. The cedar trees Stood drawn in brilliant pencil on the......