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Classical Wit

Gavin Ewart New and Selected Poems James Michie (Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press £3.95) J ames Michie, the famed translator of Catullus, Martial and Horace, has some of the......

The Voice That Breathed O'er Auden

Humphrey Carpenter Auden: A Carnival of Intellect Edward Callan (OUP £12.50) p rofessor Callan has called his book 'A Carnival of Intellect' because he regards Auden as a......