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Could Be

I shall have Beauty underground. Poppaea is in the tumbrel with me. So are blithe Helen and white lope And Lianne de Pougy. And I shall have conversation. Byron will ask for me.......

Method In His Madness

William Scammell W. B. YEATS by A. Norman Jeffares Hutchinson, £16.95, pp.3 74 L ast year saw a flurry of new books on Eliot, to mark the centenary of his birth. This year it is......

The Sage Of The Realm

A. L. Rowse ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF SALISBURY by Alan Haynes Peter Owen, £19.95, pp.208 T here are several things for which we have reason to remember Robert Cecil. He was the......