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Sisson At Seventy

David Wright Collected Poems C. H. Sisson (Carcanet £14.95) In the light of so magisterial a collection 'there is no disputing Robert Nye's large claim, quoted on the dustcover,......

Large-browed

P. J Kavanagh Selected Poems George Meredith (Carcanet £4.95) G eorge Meredith is, I suppose, an unfashionable novelist, and I would strongly recommend The Egoist to anyone who......