16 MARCH 1991, page 38

Loud-hissing Men Throw Up A Steamy Column

Simon Hoggart PUNDITS, POETS AND WITS: AN OMNIBUS OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPER COLUMNS edited by Karl E. Meyer OUP, £19.50, pp.458 L ike an enormous suet pudding, an American newspaper......

A Serious But Not Solemn Gumbie Cat

Hilary Corke THE ART OF POETRY by Peter Levi Yale, £19.95, pp. 331 T he Oxford Chair of Poetry is one of those anomalous eminences that levellers love to level. The Professor......