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A Bloodless Miss

A.N. Wilson The Penguin Book of Contempor all British Poetry Edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion (£1.95) N ot with a bang but a whimper : seems to have been the princip......

Berlioz

Peter Quennell Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Peter Raby (Cambridge University Press £12.95) Q hakespeare, whom Voltaire had once L/rudely dismissed, first conquered......