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Cicero's life was bookended by two momentous events: the fall of Roman Republic and the rise of the future Augustus.
Llewelyn Morgan asks what his letters reveal about this turning point in history.
Llewelyn Morgan - Letters from a Cataclysm
Llewelyn Morgan: Letters from a Cataclysm - Orator: The Life of Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic by Catharine Edwards
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A flurry of recent Plath paraphernalia has come to a head with a new edition of her collected poems.
Seamus Perry rejoices at the manifold, mutable woman who emerges to challenge Ted Hughes’s 1981 edition.
Seamus Perry - A Bulbous Moon
Seamus Perry: A Bulbous Moon - The Poems of Sylvia Plath by Amanda Golden & Karen V Kukil (eds)
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