Gary Dexter

Surprising literary ventures | 17 December 2005

The Devil’s Own Song and Other Verses (1968) by Quintin Hogg

issue 17 December 2005

The Devil’s Own Song and Other Verses (1968) by Quintin Hogg

The Devil’s Own Song and Other Verses (1968)
by Quintin Hogg

Yes, that Quintin Hogg, Lord Hailsham of Woolsack fame. ‘Quite suddenly, during the summer of 1940, my personal and emotional situation was such that I felt an irresistible urge to write short lyrics,’ he says in the introduction.

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