11 MARCH 1978, page 23

Last Mastery

Patrick Cosgrave Day by Day Robert Lowell (Faber £3. 95) Robert Lowell was probably the most mis' understood considerable poet of modern times. As is so often the case the rats:......

Hollow Men

Francis King Ackroyd Jules Feiffer (Hutchinson £4.50) Just as, by now, one tends to associate Osbert Lancaster's cartoons with the tough, toothy aristocracy of Belgravia and the......