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For Want Of A Nail

Peter Levi Hutchinson, f15.95 0 f all Russian poets who would now be round about a hundred years old if they survived, who include Pasternak, the mis- sing star and probably the......

Beauties Followed By Cardinals

Mary Clive POPULAR 19th-CENTURY PAINTING by Philip Hook and Mark Poltimore Antique Collectors' Club, £35 0 ne of the amusements of my old age is watching the reappearance of......

Having Dreamt The Heart

I had a dream the human heart was fashioned for lifelong love, it dreamt its way through a sickly sleep, dream-long and mute behind sound proof glass it moved with animal ease.......