3 JANUARY 1947, page 26

Old Mortality

THREE of our most distinguished poets today, one of them a veteran and assured of immortality (that is a safe prophecy), publish simul- taneously books of poems whose ineffable......

Novelist Into Farmer

Pleasant Valley. By Louis Bromfield. (Cassell. 10s. 6d.) WHEN, after Munich, war seemed likely, and Mr. Louis Bromfield returned from France to his native Ohio and bought......