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Prosaic

Michael Hulse The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rainer Maria Rilke J. F. Hendry (Carcanet New Press £9.95) W ith Eliot and Pound, Rilke is the most written-about poet of our......

Pen Against Mouth

Duncan Fallowell Pieces and Pontifications Norman Mailer (New English Library £9.95) A n interesting idea: to publish in one InLvolume Mailer sounding off in essays (his 12......