Unaccountables
Donald Davie, 7 March 1985
The Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid
edited by Alan Bold.
Hamish Hamilton, 910 pp., £20, August 1984,0 241 11220 6 Show More
edited by Alan Bold.
Hamish Hamilton, 910 pp., £20, August 1984,
Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972
edited by Paul O’Prey.
Hutchinson, 323 pp., £14.95, November 1984,9780091557508 Show More
edited by Paul O’Prey.
Hutchinson, 323 pp., £14.95, November 1984,
“... us to take the will for the deed. And he bad not much more interest in prosody than David Jones. Harvey Oxenhorn, in an admirably patient and respectful study,* points out MacDiarmid’s ‘need to provoke and convince’, and remarks: ‘As readers we are not much attuned these days to a verse of exhortation and overt opinion; where MacDiarmid’s ... ”