"And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely."
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p. 223; the poet being Robert Browning in Epilogue in his collection of poems Dramatis Personae.
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A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Byatt DBE (24 August 1936 β 16 November 2023) was an English novelist, critic and academic. She was usually known as A. S. Byatt.
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