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Up Parnassus With Rod And Gun

P. N. Furbank LIVES OF THE POETS by Michael Schmidt Weidenfeld, £22, pp. 939 M ichael Schmidt, the poet, publisher and editor of PN Review, has produced what is in a sense an......

The Incomparably Unco-operative Max

William Camp The author of The Glittering Prizes recalls that his own dealings with Lord Beaverbrook proved less enjoyable than those described by Robert Rhodes-James in The......