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“... Andrew Maunder’s introduction to his new edition of Ellen Wood’s chronicle of scandalous goings-on among the Victorian middle classes claims that East Lynne may be ‘one of the most famous unread works in the English language’. Very possibly. Yet it was spectacularly successful in its day, and its popularity has turned out to be more durable than that of most publishing sensations ...”

“... is at his best in the ‘Seine Sonnets’, where he joins his near anagram Romer to roam Paris and maunder over absinthe in its brasseries. Romer is the edgier, wittier, more introspective of the two, reminiscent at times of early Gunn. At his best Moore is less restrained, less prissy: We will whisper rude secrets to each other. Wear your red beret and the ...”

“... showed some years ago, Shakespeare had links with a brewer of that name during his sojourn near St Andrew by the Wardrobe. Doubtless the Oxford editors felt that a single unfamiliar poem was as much as the public would swallow at once, but sagacious readers will instantly agree that the proximity of another plausibly Shakespearean poem surviving only from ...”