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Fantastic dreams Gavin Stamp William Burges and the High Victorian Dream J. Mordaunt Crook (John Murray pp. 423, £40) Victorian architecture has not lost its connotations of......

Not Waving But Drowning

Jonathan Keates William Cowper: Letters and Prose Writings, Volume II, 1782-1786 eds. James King and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford University Press pp. 688, £35) Those who view the......