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Last Of The Great Survivors

Jock Bruce-Gardyne REFLECT ON THINGS PAST: THE MEMOIRS OF LORD CARRINGTON Collins, £17.50, pp.400 C arringtons are not lightly to be tam- pered with: least of all by members of......

A Question Does Love, Dear Love, Survive A Grave?

For ever absent while I live And constant in a silence No news will ever break, There by the margin of a lake Rests a boxed oblivion I would speak to, that will not speak. And......

Self-portrait In The Dutch Manner

Stephen Spender COLLECTED POEMS by Philip Larkin Faber, £16.95, pp.352 H ere are all the poems Philip Larkin wrote, including the juvenilia — placed together in the last 90......