1 SEPTEMBER 1961, page 26

Inanity Fair

A PRIME need of our age is a new D u nciad, In ten years of Conservative rule metropolitan society has become so infested with rogues on the make and fools trying to be that a......

Good, Bad And Chaos

The New American Poetry 1945-60. Edited by 27s. 6d.) Collected Poems. By Ralph Hodgson. (Mac- millan, 21s.) THOM GUNN'S poems first began to be published and known in Cambridge......