Reviews

"I have been greatly impressed by this book. I was unprepared for the extent of the achievement. This volume will be an important addition to the canon of modern lyric verse. Professor Frank Kermode It is good to be reminded that A. Alvarez the anthologist and uncompromising arbiter of poetic taste has written verse of such distinction himself. The ardent music-lover gives us his own melancholy music. Let us listen. Alfred Brendel