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Intolerable, Unstoppable, Indispensable

Ferdinand Mount EDITH WHARTON by Hermione Lee Chatto, £25, pp. 854, ISBN 9780701166656 © £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 There is no getting away from it, Edith Wharton was......

Intoxication Of The Various

P. J. Kavanagh COLLECTED POEMS: LOUIS MACNEICE edited by Peter McDonald Faber, £30, pp. 836, ISBN 9780571215744 This careful new Collected arrives just in time; my own 1963......