15 JANUARY 1954, page 25

Musical Imagination

IN this attempt to communicate some of his ideas about. musical imagination, creative, interpretative and receptive, Copland follows a formidably distinguished line rather......

The Weekly Epic

ONE day, someone will suddenly be found to have established foot- ball as a subject lit to be written about, as Mr. Cardus made cricket acceptable to the circulating libraries.......

The Leavis Treatment

"I BELIEVE that most of what may be found valuable in this book derives from the work of F. R. Leavis," says Mr. Coombes modestly but accurately. This text-book is in fact a......