22 JUNE 1962, page 26

Cold Facts

A Prospect a Ferrara. By Giorgio Bassani. (Faber, 18s.) 'THE new situations of human consciousness'— ah! what else can the novelist write about? The reader pricks up and......

Muse And Mother

AT the start of his first Oxford lecture Robert Graves mocks the idea that a French savant or 'a bright young redbrick lecturer' might have anything to say about poetry which......