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Half In Love

Anthony Storr The Life and Letters of John Kent; Joanna Richardson (The Folio Society pp. 176, £7.85) John Keats was born on 6 October 1795, and died of tuberculosis on 23......

Truth And Fact

Douglas Johnson The Origins of History Herbert Butterfield (Eyre Methuen pp. 252, £12.50) Historians are a fidgetty lot. In their smart but sullen craft they are for ever......