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Clare As Autobiographer

The Prose of John Clare. Edited by J. W. and Anne Tibble. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 3os.) THE poet is sometimes seen more clearly in informal prose than in his poetry. His......

Dostoiev Sky

Dostoievsky. By C. M. Woodhouse. (Arthur Barker. 8s. 6d.) MR. WOODHOUSE'S little book is intended as a preliminary guide for those who have not yet ventured into the vast and......

The Broad View

Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry. By M. C. Bradbrook. (Chatto & Windus. 16s.) MISS BR ADBROOK describes this most engaging work as an " old- fashioned Victorian attempt to......

Musician Of Romanticism

Hugo Wolf. By Frank Walker. (Dent. 36s.) 1951 will count as a memorable year for musicology. It has produced, amid the customary spate of ephemera, two books which are a con-......