20 MARCH 1959, page 25

Generous Criticism

Vision and Rhetoric. By G. S. Fraser. (Faber, 25s.) MR. FRASER has for long been our best reviewer of poetry; he has clearly never believed that sub- stantial criticism is out......

Pyrrhic Failure

DURING the last years of his life Sir Ronald Storrs amused himself by collecting verse translations of Horace's Ode to Pyrrha (Book 1. Ode V). By the time he died he had amassed......