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Is This The Region, This The Soil, The Clime?

Peter Levi MILTON IN AMERICA by Peter Ackroyd Sinclair-Stevenson, £15.99, pp. 276 P eter Ackroyd was an interesting poet beginning to be famous before he became a successful......

In The Grand Tradition

Michael Scott SINGERS OF THE CENTURY by J. B. Steane Duckworth, £25, pp. 271 J ohn Steane's first book, The Grand Tradition, was published some 20 years ago. Since then magazine......