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Trying Too Hard

Beryl Gray GEORGE ELIOT: COLLECTED POEMS edited by Lucien Jenkins Skoob Books, f9.95, pp.481 o n 1 January 1865 — that is, a little under halfway through her career as a writ-......

Books Are No Compensation

David Nokes N o paradox in Swift's long career as preacher and polemicist, satirist and hoax- er, is more teasing than his assumption of the role of 'Hibernian patriot'. In......