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Who Now Reads Bolingbroke ? Books

JAL PLUMB Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, baffled the world from the moment that he set foot in the House of Commons in 1701. His repu- tation for brilliant debating skill......

Sweet Williams

MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH With the exception of a part of Paterson and a handful of poems in surprisingly few anthologies, it was not until 1964—the year after his death at the age......