Diary

Ian Hamilton

What was T.S. Eliot’s favourite colour? Which season – summer, autumn, winter, spring – would you expect to feature most often in the works of Philip Larkin? And which of these two poets would you reckon was the more self-centred, fond of flowers, susceptible to hyphens, keen on using the word mother?

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[*] A Concordance to the Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot, edited by J.L. Dawson, P.D. Holland and D.J. McKitterick (Faber, 1236 pp., £55, 21 January, 0 571 11967 0). A Concordance to the Poetry of Philip Larkin, edited by R.J.C. Watt (Olms-Weidmann, 660 pp., DM258, May 1995, 3 487 09801 6).