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A House And Its Heads

Bowen's Court. By Elizabeth Bowen. (Long- mans, 42s.) FIRST published in 1942, Miss Bowen's account of her family's connection with Ireland, which stretches over three......

Poets Of The Dangerous Way

1 , 11 n important news is that Robert Lowell, the chef figure of the 'confessional' movement in American poetry, has begun to leave its methods behind. The poems in his Life......

Books The House Of Quincy

By MARCUS CUNLIFFE HE spread of Henry Adams's reputation I began with his death in 1918, at the age of eighty. For the same year saw the publication of his third-person exercise......