5 MAY 1967, page 14

Eliot's Entire Corpus

BOOKS C. B. COX When in 1948 T. S. Eliot was leaving for Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize, an American reporter at the airport asked him: 'Mr Eliot, what book did they give......

Arch-reactionary?

J. H. PLUMB Edmund Burke is both a historical figure and a living tradition, a situation which would have delighted so complex, so devious a per- sonality. The cult of Burke......