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IN HER ENGAGING new biography of Charles Dickens, Claire Tomalin writes about an encounter between two giants of 19th-century…
Splendid, subtle and stimulating
LITERARY CRITICISM: Yeats & Violence , By Michael Wood, Oxford, 272pp. £18.99
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