14 MARCH 1987, page 36

The Conversation Of Poems

John Bayley PRESENCES: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by P. J. Kavanagh Chatto & Windus, T here are poets in any age who can give the impression of talk; of poems that are a sort of......

Six Concepts Of Liberty

Shirley Robin Letwin PHILOSOPHERS AND PAMPHLETEERS: POLITICAL THEORISTS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT by Maurice Cranston OUP, £12.95 • T he Enlightenment that preceded the French......