10 JULY 1964, page 26

Timbres Varied

I HAVE always imagined that Whitney Balliett, jazz critic of the New Yorker, evolved his style after a careful study of the manner of his erst- while colleague, the late A. J.......

Oxford Century

IT is the most familiar areas of poetry that are the hardest to anthologise. A collection of nine- teenth-century English verse cannot in the nature of things aim at......