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Poetry, Politics, Polemics

Peter Porter THE INVASION HANDBOOK by Tom Paulin Faber, £12.99, pp. 201, ISBN 0571209157 P oets are often the most recalcitrant ideologues, the most severe dislikers of the......

The Night Is Darkening Round Me

Blair Worden AT THE END OF AN AGE by John Lukacs Yale, £16, pp. 230, ISBN 0300092962 T his is a gloomy book, written 'at the hour of sunset of a life that occurs together with......