21 FEBRUARY 1987, page 32

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......