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. . . Very Much Unlike What People Write

Peter Quennell BYRON'S TRAVELS by Allan Massie Sidgwick & Jackson, £15, pp.221 `A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence', Byron in 1822 told his comparatively......

Saxon Yobbos, Poetic Celts Or Gwyddbwyll

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