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Eminent Victorian

C. H. Sisson Matthew Arnold: A Life Park Honan (Weidenfeld & Nicolson pp. 496, 0.95) With the appearance of 'the first detailed biography for more than 30 years', Matthew Arnold......

Songs Of Love And War

Simon Raven \ The English Poets of the First World War John Lehmann (Thames & Hudson pp. 144, £6.95) John Lehmann does not attempt to treat of all the English poets of the First......