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Prosaic

Michael Hulse The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rainer Maria Rilke J. F. Hendry (Carcanet New Press £9.95) W ith Eliot and Pound, Rilke is the most written-about poet of our......

Gm.

London shades Peter Quennell London's Secret History Peter Bushell (Constable £8.95) The Streets of London Benny Green (Pavilion Books £9.95) C harles Baudelaire was the first......

Change And Decay

Patrick Skene Catling Georgian Dublin: Ireland's Imperilled Architectural Heritage Kevin Corrigan Kearns (David & Charles £12.95) nubtiners say that Arthur Guinness, when he was......