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Jonathan Keates _The Oxford History of English Literature vol VIII: The Mid-Eighteenth Century John Butt and Geoffrey Carnall (Oxford £14) The sole fact which absolutely needs......

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Paul Ableman Beltran in Exile William Watson (Chatto £5.95) '1 am not dead. . . Who is dead?. .. Who is dead? . . . Who do you think is dead? . . . Thibaud was dead. . .Thibaud......