12 JANUARY 1962, page 19

He Who Must Die

The Story of the Night, By John Holloway. (Routledge, Kegan Paul, 21s.) MIS is really two books. One of them is a short-tempered and orthodox account of Shakespeare's major......

Hardy's Carpet

WHAT Dr. Hynes means by the pattern of Hardy's verse is something essentially quite simple. It is that the structure of all Hardy's best poems, and of most of the rest, too,......