David Wright
Thomas Blackburn, who died 10 years ago, was one of the most neglected poets to appear in the Forties. He left behind him an amazing body of unpublished work from which more......
Isabel Colegate
Here are three good books which I don't seem to have seen reviewed. Childhood, edited by Penelope Hughes-Hallett (Col- lins, £16), is a varied and unsentimental selection of......
Anne Chisholm
A remarkable exchange of letters, A Noble Combat (edited by Klemens von Klemper- er, Clarendon Press, £19.50), the corres- pondence (1932-9) of Sheila Grant Duff, a fiercely......
Denis Hills
A clever young Lithuanian Jew from a Gorbals slum picks his way with increasing brashness through the intellectual and moral hazards of late pre-war and wartime Oxford. His......
Jasper Griffin
I have enjoyed Mediaeval Civilisation by Jacques Le Goff (Blackwell, £19.95), which combines illuminating generalisa- tions with appealing nuggets of fact: for instance,......
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