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"Today, the most famous scene from Mary's life and, perhaps, in is the stormy summer night at the on when Byron, his h…"

"Usually dismissive of other female writers, Riding had praised Stein in the final chapter of A Survey of Modernist Po…"

"Eccentricity has not always been encouraged by the prim editors of . Invited to list his recreations, omitted motorbi…"

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"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"