ABSTRACT
28 June 1935, vol, cliv, 1112
Parsons (1906–80) was chairman of Chatto & Windus from 1954 to 1974. He is known particularly for his anthology of First World War poetry, ‘Men Who March Away’ (1965). In the ‘Spectator’ for 22 October 1932, he entered into controversy with Rebecca West over Eliot's ‘Selected Essays 1917–1932’, which he had reviewed and defended against her in the ‘Spectator’ on 8 October.
In this review Parsons also considered Auden and Isherwood's ‘The Dog Beneath the Skin’, which he found ‘a shoddy affair, a half-baked little satire which gets nowhere’.
