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“... of the political and of the intellectual world. The wars removed the mysteries of politics. G.K. Hunter has remarked on the contrast between The Faerie Queene and Dryden’s allegory of the exclusion crisis a century later, Absalom and Achitophel. Spenser linked politics to mythology, cosmology, universal ideas. Dryden reduced politics to intrigue and ...”

“... and the other by a former bishop. Here one could quote, to some purpose, the actress Mandy Rice-Davies. Fifty-five years after Goebel’s book first came out it is still not clear who discovered the islands. It is doubtful if it ever will be. Goebel follows his energetic examination of all the known claims with an exhaustive account of why, in the light of ...”

“... a lot of morning sex.In June 1958, she had her first poem accepted by the New Yorker. ‘Mussel-Hunter at Rock Harbour’ moves from the perspective of the hunter to that of the hunted, ‘dull blue and/Conspicuous’. She argued with the editor to have ‘river’s/Backtracking tail’ instead of ‘backtrack tail’ but ...”

“... made by Quaker companies like Barclay’s and Lloyd’s banks, Bryant and May matches, Swan Hunter shipbuilders and Cadbury itself. In Victorian Britain, Quaker businessmen had competitive advantages. Ron Davies, in his biography of George Stephenson (Quakers were early financiers of the railways), talks about a ...”