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A Triumph Of Optimism

Christopher Howse THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING by Simon Winchester OUP, £12.99, pp. 260, ISBN 10198607024 A da Murray, the wife of the long-bearded progenitor of The Oxford English......

Rocks And Guts And Bullocks

Lloyd Evans COLLECTED POETRY by Ted Hughes Faber, £40, pp. 1332, ISBN 0571217192 T ed Hughes was the first living poet I loved. The same is probably true for countless kids who......