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Letter: Better or verse

Peter Hill
Sunday 29 June 1997 23:02 BST
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Sir: When John Bate (letter, 27 June) attributes the popularity of such poets as Hardy, Housman and Betjeman to the superior quality of the book-binding in their day he overlooks an alternative explanation - the quality of the writing.

PETER HILL

Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire

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