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A True Poet

SONG AT THE YEAR'S TURNING. By R, S. Thomas. (Hart-Davis, 12s. 6d.) WHEN so much criticism of modern verse takes the form of the erection or sapping of generalisation and......

Saddened View

THOMAS HARDY'S NOTEBOOKS: And Some Letters from Julia Augusta Martin. Edited with notes by Evelyn Hardy. (Hogarth Press, Ws. 6d.) OTHER people's notebooks, like other people's......

Credo, Ut Intelligam

This book will surely rank henceforth as the standard History of Christian mediaeval philosophy. Every movement and every individual theory is expounded, briefly sometimes, but......