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Enlarging Insularity

Patrick McGuinness

  • With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry by Donald Davie

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Patrick McGuinness, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.

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