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A Homer Of Our Own
Christopher Gill To Homer Through Pope H. A. Mason (Chatto and Windus £2.75) While Rieu's Penguin translations of Homer sell by the thousand on English bookstalls, and American......
A Child Of Mixtures
Isabel Quigly Memoirs 1906-1969 Manya Harari (Harvill Press £3.50) "Fortunately she seemed to need less sleep than most people ": so they say in their notes about Manya Harari,......
A Little Lerner
Richard Luckett The Uses of Nostalgia: Studies in Pastoral Poetry Laurence Lerner (Chatto and Windus £3). The question of pastoral can hardly be called new. Although of all......