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Truth About Marlowe

A. L. Rowse CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE AND CANTERBURY by William Urry Faber, £12.95, pp.184 D r Urry knew more about the history of Canterbury and, by consequence, Christopher Marlowe,......

De Viris Illustribus

Knowing you will not calm down Till I am half mad myself, I concede to you that our life Is half worthless and full of Terror. Nothing left for show, We drink, two old......

Not Decadent Enough

Anita Brookner THE ROAD FROM DECADENCE: FROM BROTHEL TO CLOISTER: SELECTED LETTERS OF J. K. HUYSMANS edited and translated by Barbara Beaumont The Athlone Press, f25, pp.273 0 f......