Everett’s English Poets
Frank Kermode, 22 January 1987
Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin
by Barbara Everett.
Faber, 264 pp., £15, October 1986,0 571 13978 7 Show More
by Barbara Everett.
Faber, 264 pp., £15, October 1986,
“... to dwell on the mixture of manners, the ‘tension between the styles’. Everett suggests that Robert Hitchens’s Bella Donna, a bestseller which figures in the Thompson-Bywaters case of 1922 – a fine English murder – was one of Eliot’s sources, and that he had been reading Gentlemen prefer blondes and Ring Lardner, here described with some ... ”