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Saints Of The Charter •

THE difficulties of the Chartists remind one at once, as the editor concedes, of the problems of African nationalist parties in our own age. The uncanny instability of Chartism......

Rape Of The Waste Lock

Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion. By Reuben Brower. (0.U.P., 35s.) 'IMMATURE poets imitate; mature poets steal.' The dictum, which occurs in one of the earlier essays in......

Books

Puzzles and Epiphanies By FRANK KER MODE ELLMANN, the author of two good books on Yeats, has written a superlatively ood biography of Joyce.* It assembles, with a astery Joyce......