Letters
Spengler was right Sir: I believe Christopher Coker misinter- prets the Spenglerian timetable ('What's left of the West', 7 September). Spengler equates the time, in various......
Leave It To The Poets
Sir: T.S. Eliot has had by far the greatest influence of any poet writing in English this century, and is easily the most memorable (Books, 7 September). Publication of juve-......
Sir: Christopher Coker's Acknowledgment Of Oswald...
West marks an informed departure from the gen- eral ignorance of his work, except for an occasional ill-informed or trivial notice such as the falsehood in several current works......
Elizabethan Era
Sir: In his review of Antonia Fraser's book on the Gunpowder Plot (Books, 31 August), Peter Vansittart refers to interpreters of the Jacobean era for whom Macbeth is more......
Sir: In His Dismissal Of Conan Doyle's His- Torical Novels,
Bevis Hillier asks 'who reads The White Company today?' I do; and Sir Nigel and Rodney Stone, and the Brigadier Gerrard stories — though I find Uncle Berme unsatisfactory and I......