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“... book and partly because the absence of any considerations of real critical force from Edward Callan’s book explains its blandness. No consideration such as may be brought into view by mentioning Larkin and Leavis is allowed to ruffle the surface of Callan’s prose. A chapter on Auden’s disenchantment ...”

“... evokes the pathetic band of executed European mercenaries who fought in Angola under ‘Colonel Callan’ – the rank invented, and the name borrowed from Edward Woodward’s flamboyantly-played television spy. One can expect leader-writers in three or four years’ time to pontificate solemnly about ‘the devil’s ...”