Edmund Spenser: A Life, by Andrew Hadfield
Willy Maley hails a monumental biography that sets new standards in Renaissance criticism
Willy Maley hails a monumental biography that sets new standards in Renaissance criticism
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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Piers Brendon, fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Vintage Press, £9.99, ISBN 9780712668460"The true symbol of the British Empire is the moustache,...
The National Academy of Science , United States, has elected the following British-based foreign associates: Enrico Coen , John Innes Foundation professor at the University of East Anglia and deputy...