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Extraordinary Detonations Of Power

Peter Levi WOLFWATCHING by Ted Hughes Faber f8.99, f3.99, pp.55 A s writers get older, the survivors of their generation of poets become closer than colleagues, almost brethren,......

Buffeted By Dastards For English Prose

David Gilmour ARABIA DESERTA by C.M. Doughty Bloomsbury, £16.95, pp.256 A lmost everyone knows two facts about Doughty and no more: that he wrote a very long book about Arabia......

A Medical Man Sent Me His Son To Tutor. I

took him through the usual glum, pretentious, depressing classics of literature. Then the doctor stopped his son from coming. Meeting me in the street he said: 'Thanks,......