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“... puzzle, and speak pure Oxford’. Those Penguin Specials, sometimes as Red as their covers ... Victor Selwyn, introducing the ‘Oasis Selection’ of Poems of the Second World War, proclaims that the verse he has chosen is ‘the product of a literate, aware and compassionate generation’ of young idealists. ‘The tanks going into EI Aliment were ...”

“... He was paid the balance of that month’s salary, $200, and felt able to depart as undisputed victor in the dispute: ‘Have had more fun out of the fracasso than there is in a dog fight & hope I have taught ’em how to run a college.’ By late April he was installed in Venice, ‘by the soap-smooth stone posts where San Vio/meets with il Canal ...”

“... had found aestheticism, ‘“the sublime” in the old sense’, as he would put it later in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. It was a fitting choice for the boy who, at 16, greeted H.D. in ‘an extravagant, eye-catching green robe, bought for him, in Tunis she thought, by his Aunt Frank on his first transatlantic trip’. Elective affinity was everything. As Williams ...”

“... information in every way he could about what was happening in Spandau – on one occasion Selwyn Lloyd threatened him with prosecution for breaking the Official Secrets Act – subscribes to the view that Hess’s flight was a flight from reality and that all his subsequent behaviour has been a hysterical refusal to see the world as it now is. In his ...”