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In this week’s TLS. Can the life be separated from the work? Paying tribute to the capaciousness, depth and forensic brilliance of T. S. Eliot’s criticism in his lead review of The Collected Prose, edited by Archie Burnett, Stephen Romer argues that these volumes represent a “pushback”.

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In this week’s TLS. Can the life be separated from the work? Paying tribute to the capaciousness, depth and forensic brilliance of T. S. Eliot’s criticism in his lead review of The Collected Prose, edited by Archie Burnett, Stephen Romer argues that these volumes represent a “pushback”.

Nov 15, 2024 · Visit the Times Bookshop to purchase the books below. DAVID ABULAFIA. In Courage and Compassion: A Jewish boyhood in German-occupied Greece (Berghahn), Tony Molho, a celebrated historian of Renaissance Italy, traces his journeys as a small boy hidden from the Nazis in Salonika and Athens.This unforgettable book is also an account of human kindness, of ordinary people risking their safety by ...

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