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Roger Scruton On Adrian Stokes

The Image in Form Selected writings of Adrian Stokes, edited by Richard Wollheim (Penguin 60p) Adrian Stokes published his first book, The Quattro Cento, in 1932, and he has......

Poet And Politician

Douglas Dunn Extravagaria Pablo Neruda (Cape £3.50). Nef tali Beltran — better known by his pseudonym, Pablo Neruda — is now sixtyeight, with a recent birthday on July 12. His......

A Reading

of Thackeray Gabriel Pearson The Exposure of Luxury: Radical Themes in Thackeray Barbara Hardy (Peter Owen £3.25) "The evidence of the biography and the evidence of the fiction......