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Charles M. Doughty. A Critical Study. By Barker Fairley....
Cape. 9s.) DOUGHTY, like his lifelong-worshipped master, Edmund Spenser„ is a writer's writer, a poet's poet. His Craft-con- sciousness is so severe, so unrelaxed, that the......
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