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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......

The Noise, The Smells And The People

Jonathan Sumption THE SENSES IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND by C. M. Woolgar Yale, £25, pp. 372, ISBN 0300118716 © £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 n the opening page of The Waning......