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How Sad That Wazzoo Never Met Eliot

David Sexton THE ROYAL BEASTS AND OTHER WORKS by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden Chatto & Winclus, £12.95 B y the time he was 13 William Empson had already taken......

A Nasty Woman Of Some Importance

Richard Shone PEGGY: THE WAYWARD GUGGENHEIM by Jacqueline Bograd Weld Bodley Head, f15 T here is a great deal of penetration in this book, little of it psychological. Pe gg y......