15 OCTOBER 1965, page 24

Books A Green Man From The Sea

By JOHN DAVENPORT E E was,' said the villager walking with Louis MacNeice and myself away from the Laugharne churchyard twelve years ago. 'he was a very simple man.' He was......

Solstice Time

IDLING through this batch late at night, I sud- denly sat up and listened. A poem had jumped from the page. It's called 'Solstice Weather' and I wish I could quote it in full.......

Graves—the '65 Edition

Collected Poemi 1965. By Robert Graves. (Cassell, 42s.) ROBERT GRAVES is an anomaly—a lyric poet gifted with a flawless ear, yet also one who reads his own verse as if it......