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Andrew Boyle The View in Winter Ronald Blythe (Allen Lane £6.95) In a sense, I suppose, it was a natural progression for the author of Akenfield, a modern classic, to apply his......

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Jeffrey Meyers The Letters of D. H. Lawrence Ed. James Boulton (Cambridge 215) Lawrence's letters — the greatest in Eng lish since Keats and Byron — are marked by intuitive......