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Terms Of Trial

D. J. Taylor THE PALE COMPANION by Andrew Motion Viking, L11.95, pp.164 T he first volume, apparently, in a link- ed series of novels about English life over the last 20 years,......

The Taste Of A Yorkshireman In America

C. H. Sisson UNDER BRIGGFLATTS: A HISTORY OF POETRY IN GREAT BRITAIN 1960-1988 by Donald Davie Carcanet, £18.95, pp.261 T his is an odd book. It could hardly be otherwise, for......