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Chapter And Verse

Hugo Williams OPENED GROUND POEMS 1966-96 by Seamus Heaney Faber and Faber, £20, £12.99, pp. 352 I t must be galling, chilling even, to find yourself placed above such an......

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Jonathan Sumption THE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS: VOLUME TEN, 1862-1864 edited by Graham Storey Oxford University Press, £65, pp. 511 T he opening of this volume finds Dick- ens......