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Heading For Disaster

Roger Clarke THE HAW LANTERN by Seamus Heaney Faber, f7.95, L3.95 T he Haw Lantern by its title suggests vintage Heaney: exact cubes of peat- smelling observation by a man who......

The Greatness Of The Father Of History

Hugh Lloyd-Jones THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS translated by David Grene University of Chicago Press, £23.95 H istory starts with Herodotus. With- out him we should be painfully......