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An American Saintsbury

Christopher Hawtree The Portable Edmund Wilson Edited by Lewis Dabney (Penguin £3.95) `H ave you found any professional criticism of your work illuminating or helpful? Edmund......

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Gavin Stamp The Image of the Architect Andrew Saint (Yale £9.95) A chitects seldom lead very thrilling lives, so it is perhaps remarkable that members of the profession have......