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Unknown And Unknowing

John Zametica CLEMENT ATTLEE: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY by Trevor Burridge Cape, £20 A ttlee remains postwar Britain's un- known prime minister. The general im- pression is of a......

A Light Touch But A Tragic End

Roy Fuller RANDALL JARRELL'S LETTERS edited by Mary Jarrell Faber & Faber, f25. A remarkable number of celebrated American poets were born in the decade 1908-17 — Theodore......