10 AUGUST 1962, page 22

Menaced Mildness

T o judge by his new book, A Sense of Danger, Vernon Scannell seems almost too real to be true, the typical contemporary English poet, his 'whole terrain a wintry cabbage......

Furies Of The North

Inferno. By August Strindberg. Translated by Mary Sandbach. (Hutchinson, 25s.) STRINDBERG, whose fame in this country rests largely on his very rarely performed plays, was also......

Fresh Water Spring

The Poems of William Barnes. Edited by Ber- nard Jones. (Centaur Press, two vols., 8 gns.) 'DEAR old Barnes,' Coventry Patmore wrote to Edmund Gosse in September, 1886. 'He has......