Survival Of Poetry
Sir: I'd be more impressed with ) 70 , r , fulminations on 'The survival of poet* s i 0 1 g c h t o t e b e s tr 5signs i f The f Specta tortaking se s r 000wsfyd the e t two......
Adler And Alger
Sir: It has always amazed me that a • journal that can provide its readers with the brilliant political commentary of Patr ick Cosgrave can be reduced — When it comes to......
Capp And Nixon
From Professor Alfred March Sir: No doubt your correspondent Al Capp is known to your readers as a gifted and cryptically lewd cartoonist. Mr Capp uses his graphic skills to......
Literary Style
Sir: As a literary critic for over thirty years, writing most regularly for such papers as the Times and the Guardian and under editors such as Ivor Brown (who in a review of......
Quibbling With Bookbuyer
From Lady Rachel Biliington Sir: I am flattered to provide material for Bookend (October 5) which as a novelist I have always admired. However I must defend my choice of books......
Sir; Re Bookbuyer's Absurd Lament (september 28) That...
don't write books themselves, surely that is something to be thankful for. Who wants a pregnant midwife? Cohn Hoycraft Chairman and Managing Director, Duckworth and Company Ltd,......
Coleridge's Addiction
Sir: I have just seen Miss Parker's letter (September 21), about Molly Lefebure's book on Coleridge. 1 have known the author since before the war and I should think her......
Post Office Discrimination
Sir: While the government condemns anything which might be considered divisive, (e.g. public schools) the Post Office openly and deliberately offers a better service to the......