17 JANUARY 1941, page 22

Poetry In War

(Secker and Warburg. 5s.) PECULIAR things—peculiar commonplaces—are now expected from poets in a war ; or rather a war is expected to plant such commonplaces in the poet and......

" Airrt " In The Theatre

Purple Dust. By Sean O'Casey. (Macmillan. 6s.) ONCE at a drama festival I was confronted with an ambitious and, I thought, extremely silly play in verse. Fortunately it was so......