18 NOVEMBER 1966, Page 19

This new edition includes all Douglas's line drawings, though, unfortunately,

the editors tell us, it proved impossible to include the colour illustrations. Many of the drawings depict dead bodies, and Douglas's attitude to death is the key to his mature poetic art. He records its full horror: But she would weep to see today how on his skin the swart flies move; the dust upon the- paper eye and the burst stomach like a caw.