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Mitred Muse

Peter Levi w hen the Pope's poems appeared in England in 1979, in the first book of his poetry ever to appear anywhere, the ob- vious thing to say was that it was like a bear......

Totalitarian

Gavin Stamp The Beaux-Arts and nineteenth-century French architecture Edited by Robin Mid- dleton (Thames & Hudson £18) H aving dominated French architecture for a century and a......