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Fiction

long Down the Years. By Amabel and Clough Williams-Ellis. col University Press. 10s. 6d.) Days with_Edward. By Rupert Croft-Cooke. (Macmillan. 1 ls. 6d.) STYLE in a novel is......

How Poems Grow

SomE poets, like Milton often and Wordsworth on occasion, think out poems almost completely before they write them ; others, like Shelley, jot down most fearful scrabblings......