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A Little Lerner

Richard Luckett The Uses of Nostalgia: Studies in Pastoral Poetry Laurence Lerner (Chatto and Windus £3). The question of pastoral can hardly be called new. Although of all......

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Bookbuyer '1 43. the second year!"rUiniing a good ó5s-section of literary' London — authors "and literary editors dc4ii 'to the merest • gossip columnist — turned up for the......