Hottentot in Jackboots
John Bayley: The Cockney School, 10 June 1999
Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School
by Jeffrey Cox.
Cambridge, 287 pp., £37.50, January 1999,0 521 63100 9 Show More
by Jeffrey Cox.
Cambridge, 287 pp., £37.50, January 1999,
“... of any poetic background, and that of the Romantics in particular, can do an important job, and Jeffrey Cox’s study is a good example of what can be done, for he avoids the hunt-the-slipper determination which has caused some zealous critics to see a covert political message lurking in every heartfelt Romantic line. There is no likelihood at all that ... ”