6 MARCH 1971, page 16

Contemporary Poetry: Two Views

Patrick Cosgrave on the dissolution of our poetry To speak of greatness, or even of achieve- ment of a high order, in connection with post- war British poetry is not merely......

George Holmes On The Avignon Popes

The Avignon Papacy 1305-1403 Yves Renouard translated by Denis Bethell (Faber £2.75) From 1309 to 1376 Avignon, an Otherwise unimportant town on the Rhone, was the seat of the......