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Hogg In Sheep's Clothing

Tnosiis JEFFERSON Hoes is the Richard Crookback of literary history. Time maintains his notorious reputation, and there are always advocates who appear at intervals to try to......

Obliquity In Poetry

Poetry, Direct and Oblique. By E. M. W. Tillyard. (Chatto and Windus. 8s. 6d.) A GOOD poem, like a symphony or painting, must always tend to lose its freshness and its early......