5 DECEMBER 1992, page 45

Sublime And Ridiculous

Michael Hulse SELECTED POETRY by Hugh MacDiarmid, edited by Alan Riach and Michael Grieve Carcanet, £18.95, pp. 284 SELECTED PROSE by Hugh MacDiarmid, edited by Alan Riach and......

Hanging Out The Washing

Rupert Christiansen KEEPERS OF THE FLAME: LITERARY ESTATES AND THE RISE OF BIOGRAPHY by Ian Hamilton Hutchinson, £18.99, pp. 344 T his is a book which I nearly wrote myself. The......