17 JULY 1976, page 25

Take-away

Nick Totton Season Songs Ted Hughes (Faber and Faber £2.40) A book by Ted Hughes is like a take-away Chinese meal: a colourful -mélange of surface excitements which leaves one......

Divagation

I. A. Richards The intellect ()final; is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work. W. B. Yeats Who'd think he'd see so proud a Master blot His copy-book so sadly......