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Nasty Politician, Good Diarist
John Zametica THE POLITICAL DIARY OF HUGH DALTON, 1918-40, 1945-60 edited by Ben Pimlott Capel LSE, f40 'A great booming bully' is how Tho- mas Barman, the distinguished......
An Expanding Wall-flower
William Scammell THE COMPLETE PROSE OF MARIANNE MOORE edited by Patricia C. Willis Faber, £30 M arianne Moore is something of an acquired taste, like music for lute and viol, or......
Last Night
Last night we had 'The Break-up of our Marriage', Fit the Nineteenth. Among the shards of broken crockery (I scored a bullseye on the kitchen door) and stamped glass, something......