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The Purest Of Aesthetes

John McEwen CHARLES RICKETTS: A BIOGRAPHY by J. G. P. Delaney Clarendon, LSO, pp. 429 M ention of Charles Ricketts RA (1866-1931) usually has the effect of ring- ing distant......

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Ronald Hingley THE COMPLETE POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, edited and with an introduction by Roberta Reeder Zephyr Press, distributed by Airlift......

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The only thing in the world, apart from God, that matters Is money. Not the accumulation or the gaining but The possession of it. Only then can we examine the world. There......