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Poetic Licence

Peter Ackroyd W. H. Auden: Collected Poems edited by Edward Mendelson (Faber and Faber £8.50) Now at last we-have the great poet, caught by Edward Mendelson in what is a work of......

The Outsider

Anthony Nutting A. P. Herbert: A Biography Reginald PoUnd (Michael Joseph 27.25) Among the many futile reforms enacted by the Labour Party in office, perhaps the Pettiest and......