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Up Parnassus With Rod And Gun

P. N. Furbank LIVES OF THE POETS by Michael Schmidt Weidenfeld, £22, pp. 939 M ichael Schmidt, the poet, publisher and editor of PN Review, has produced what is in a sense an......

Days Of Elegance

Anita Brookner NEW YORK MOSAIC: THREE NOVELS by Isabel Bolton Virago, £12.99, pp. 482 I sabel Bolton, who was really Mary Brit- ton Miller, died in 1979 at the age of 92. She......