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Books

The chaos beneath the myth Colin Welch THE BRITISH ISLES : A HISTORY OF FOUR NATIONS by Hugh Kearney CUP, f17.50, pp.236 S ome giddy persons may be deluded by the bright jacket,......

Altering Her Alter Ego

Nicholas Lezard THE CLOSEST POSSIBLE UNION by Joanna Scott Bodley Head, £12.95, pp. 290 B yron hated Keats because the latter was always 'soliciting his imagination', and there......