27 JULY 1956, page 15

Mr. Parker's Piece

The case for public ownership in die motor- car industry—and Mr. Gaitskell's form may well be that most suited to this industry—rests upon the desirability of looking at the......

The Pen Congress

SIR,—I would not, for a minute, set the exient of my acquaintance with writers against Mr. Roberts's. I would, however, like to point out three facts which are relevant to his......

The Casement Papers

Sm,—May I enlighten Mr. Rene MacColl and those readers whom the mystery of the Casement diaries still intrigues? From a personal friend of irrefutable knowledge I gather that......

Poets Of The Fifties Sir,—what Can I Learn From Mr.

Anthony Hartley (Spectator. July 20) on Poets of the Fifties, Forties, Thirties, Twenties and Tens except a batch of names and several history notions about poetry yesterday,......

Sin,—mr. Kingsley Amis Recently Told Us That In Poetry...

music is of no importance in itself,' as near as I can remember, and now Mr. Hartley tells us that the poets of the Fifties are so good that they have hauled poetry out of the......

A Poet Of The Counter- Reformation

SIR,—It is idle to speculate how far individuals professing the same faith hold identical philo- sophic concepts. God alone knows that. Mr. Little and I can only discuss......

Sr.—in His Article On Poets Of The Fifties, Mr. Anthony

Hartley refers, not unfavourably, to the work of Edward Thomas, R. S. Thomas and Robert Graves, adding, 'I am well aware that all these are Welshmen.' My brother Robert, snore......

Sir,—in His Interesting Review 'poets Of The Fifties,'...

Hartley makes some generalisations about the poetry of the war years which 1 do not think can possibly hold water. He says: 'we all suffered considerably under the New......