3 DECEMBER 1988, page 33

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 He left behind him an amazing body of unpublished work from which more......

Frances Partridge

For me, the year's landscape is dominated obelisk-wise by the admirable biography Freud: A Life for our Time by Peter Gay (Dent, £16), a work of immense scho- larship and......

P. J. Kavanagh

One stands out head and shoulders, be- cause it is long and I wished it longer: Philip Toynbee's End of a Journey (Bloomsbury, £25) an honest, unoleagi- nous daily account of......