7 APRIL 1961, page 18

Milton

SIR.—Affecting to feel more sorrow than anger, Dr. Leavis asserts that I labour to repress critical debate. This is false. On the particular issue of modern literary•history to......

Matters Of Life And Death Sta,--mr. Richard Wollheim Draws A

sharp•distinc- tion between what Mr. St. John-Stevas believes 'as a Catholic' and what he believes `as a liberal'; and it is as a liberal that he believes that 'the dictates of......

Cinema

0, 0, Antonio By ISABEL QUIGLY The World of Apu. (Academy.) — II bell' Antonio. (Paris Pull- man.)—Taste of Fear. (Warner.) Is it inverted racialism? A friend of mine came out......

Is Instructive To Reflect That The Tortuous - Verbiage About

Milton, which hasiccently appeared in your columns, is the work of correSpondents who are either teachers of English. or professional critics, or both. Their dispute may or may......

Why?

SIR,- - TwiCe in the last few weeks your TV critic has referred sarcastically to a certain BBC announcer. Your critic would appear to hold' the vievi , that because the......