Volume 41, Number 7 · April 7, 1994

Leaving the Door Ajar

By Alison Lurie
Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare
by Theresa Whistler

Duckworth, 478 pp., £25.00

Taste in literature, like taste in food, changes over time. The complex, subtly flavored custards and meringues and soufflés that crowned a company dinner fifty or sixty years ago are seldom seen today—like many of the writers most admired in mid-century.



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