... outlines of our history to emerge sharp and clear. Bringing together in a single volume bio graphies of the poets of the English-speaking world, and assessments of their individual works, has been a vast and worthwhile labour for Stephen Spender and Donald Hall ...

... light hand with dialogue which crack! s and jj fizzes along and a pleasant taste in simii :s, as 5 when he describes a man speaking in a te.-hno- 5 crat accent compounded of Lancashire, Brixton and Marlon Brando. To say that he i out- I spoken is rather ...