7 FEBRUARY 1958, page 24

Little World Made Cunningly

The Metaphysical Poets. Edited by Helen Gardner. (Penguin Books, 5s.) IT would be an exaggeration to say that people didn't read Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Marvell and the rest......

.,breaking The Line

A Portrait of Lord Nelson. By Oliver Warner. (Chatto and Windus, 30s.) 'HE is covered with stars, ribbons, and medals more like a prince of the Opera than the con- queror of the......