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Arts

Crossness and communication Rodney Milnes Armide (Spitalfields Festival) Trop malheureuse Armide! Helas! Que J. ton destin est deplorable.' Owing to the extremely reverberant......

Burning Sappho

Miranda Seymour M adame Yourcenar is a remarkab le woman, the first of her sex to be elected to the French Academy, the author of Memoirs of Hadrian, arguably the fines t......