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Almost Making His Name As A Poet

Peter Levi EDGAR A. POE: MOURNFUL AND NEVER- ENDING REMEMBRANCE by Kenneth Silverman Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £25, pp. 564 W c have fewer than 60 poems by Edgar Allan Poe and they......

Obliging The Nobility

Mark Archer COUTTS AND CO, 1692-1992: THE PORTRAIT OF A PRIVATE BANK by Edna Healey John Curtisl Hodder & Stoughton, £25, pp. 488 P erhaps Pascal had bankers in mind when he......