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Is This The Region, This The Soil, The Clime?

Peter Levi MILTON IN AMERICA by Peter Ackroyd Sinclair-Stevenson, £15.99, pp. 276 P eter Ackroyd was an interesting poet beginning to be famous before he became a successful......

Bounded In A

nutshell Christopher Howse BACKWARDS OUT OF THE BIG WORLD by Paul Hyland HarperCollins, f18, pp. 269 O nce we were so big, now we are so small. That is the refrain of the......