Norman Page

Norman Page is a professor of modern English literature at the University of Nottingham. His books include a critical biography of A.E. Housman.

Letter

Great Reviews

15 September 1988

Mary-Kay Wilmers is excessively gloomy, or excessively modest, in declaring that ‘there are few great book reviews’ and that ‘the best one can hope for is that some will prove memorable over the lifetime of an editor or his magazine’ (LRB, 15 September). Has she forgotten that a not insignificant proportion of the canon of non-fictional prose consists of books reviews – by, for instance,...

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Raining

Donald Davie, 5 May 1983

At the end of a recent and refreshingly untypical poem R.S. Thomas, recalling his sea-captain father, addresses him where he lies in his grave: ...

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