3 SEPTEMBER 1954, page 14

Poets Of The Fifties Sir,—mr. Hartley's Long And...

' Poets of the Fifties,' raises more issues than he perhaps realises. Certainly the ' new movement' in poetry has its roots in the Thirties, inasmuch as Empson and Auden were......

Sta,—in His Pointed Letter Last Week Mr. J. A. Kcnsit,

who states that he was on the platform at the Protestant meeting, denies that the cauliflower which Sir Compton Mackenzie alleges that he threw at the platform and struck......

Snakes Alive

sm,—Your Canadian correspondent, Mr, W. R. Hibbard, (Spectator, July 23) appears to be unaware of the fact that the snake he encountered in Quebec Province and calls a 'spotted......

Scottish Royal Commission Sir,—i Find Your Recent...

on this subject perplexing. May I quote ? . . . even if,' wrote Mr. R. E. Muirhead in his letter in your issue of August 20, ' the whole 71 Scots MPs were returned as Scottish......

The Road To Heaven

Sue,—Mr. Townsend in his letter to you last week headed The Road to Heaven,' has produced perhaps unconsciously a very neat commentary on conditions today. ' The poor man in his......

The Cockney Renaissance.

SIR,—Fuller treatment of the Cockney Renaissance could not be expected in so short an essay as Mr. Chilworth's: but one cannot but feel that he might have mentioned Leigh Unt's......