24 APRIL 1953, page 7

The Stolen Decade

N OT all poets die young. Wordsworth, Tennyson. Meredith, Hardy, Waller, Herrick lived to eighty or beyond; Yeats and Browning well into the seventies. But the lyric gift,......

Four Poems

Another Tongue The chimney swallows gossip:—` This sullen weather!" . "Those vulgar sparrows!" . . ."Eggs!?" . . . "The dearth of flies!" Or sibilant love-talk? . Well, I know......