Dylan Thomas
is not always easy to shift an argument about a poet to a true level of inquiry, as the com- batants forget that it is the poetry that matters, not • what they say about it. Yet......
Ilk Am Letters
Olwen Battersby Vernon Watkins. Bryn Griffiths, W. M. J. Alves For Some Consumers Arthur Rau On Cricket and Chess J. D. Taylor Chess Problems Nicholas Marlin-Smith Megatons on......
The Fifty-year Rule
SIR.—I have just seen Mr. Rhodes James's article, and if it is not too late I. would like, as a fOrmer UK official historian, to offer some comments on it. 1 agree with him that......
For Some Consumers
SiR,--This Spectator reader does not know every- thing and cannot even tell Quoodle about a restaur- ant 'boasting' a wine-list with more forceful sucker- appeal than that which......
Sir.—mr. John Tripp, In The Spectator Of September 11, Seems
depressed by the evidence that Dylan Thomas constructed poems by putting down the rhymes first and then backing into them. One is driven to wonder how common a poetical practice......
Sir,--mr. John Tripp's Allegation That I Condone Dylan's...
September 11) is obviously the result of misreading my earlier letter. 1 merely included the 'baffle' comment by Thomas as an ironical footnote, and did not imply in any way......
Megatons On The Motorway
SIR,—As a schoolmaster, may 1 say that the 30 m.p.h. limit imposed in 1934, the year when there were more fatal road accidents than ever before, or, 1 believe, since, has been......
On Cricket And Chess
SIR,—The Greek Test cricketer referred to by Michael Llewellyn Smith (September 4) was X. Balaskas, a leg-break bowler who was a member of the South African side which toured......
Chess Problems
SIR.—In the Spectator of September 4 there is a mis- take in the chess problem: BLACK has a pawn on his first row, which is against the laws of the game; this does not actually......
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