12 JUNE 1964, page 24

Critic's Critic

Poet in Exile : Ezra Pound. By Noel Stock. (Manchester University Press, 32s. 6d.) YET another commentary on the career of Ezra Pound: is this periplus really necessary? Does......

The Mandarins

THE right and duty of the literary intellectual to concern himself with public issues is a distin- guished tradition in France, from Voltaire and the Great Revolution, through......

The Alien

There's an empathy between the trees and me in England, an air between us that's constantly beneficent. With a look, the English transplant me elsewhere, though their civil......