A biography of the English poet who was, for forty complicated years, the partner of Sylvia Townsend Warner.
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'Orientalism', the Barenboim-Said Foundation, the East-West Divan orchestra, 20 honorary degrees, umpteen prizes: there is much to say about this clever, cultivated, humane man.
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Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
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