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Native Wood-notes Wild

JOHN CLARE by Jonathan Bate Picador, £25, pp. 637, ISBN 0330371061 T his is an exceptional biography, which is just as well, since I don't think one could bear to have the......

The Old Order Changeth

Eric Anderson THOMAS GAGE by James Fleming Cape, £16.99, pp. 297, ISBN 02240 7119X A s a historical novel Thomas Gage is more Hardy than Tolstoy. The classic historical novel —......