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“... of one or two poets, we are conscious of the thoughtfulness, vigour and expertise of the author. Mark Bence-Jones isn’t bothered by any ambiguity in the term ‘Ascendancy’: in his book, the Ascendancy consists of people of a certain social standing, living in Ireland but keeping to an English intonation, Protestant as a rule but not to a ...”

“... about aristocrats speaking of themselves as middle-class, as they frequently do these days.’ So Bence-Jones and Montgomery-Massingberd take the word ‘gentleman’ and make it mean ‘aristocratic’: their definitions define not so much what is as what they think ought to be. They begin by closing the gap between the terms ‘nobility’ and ...”