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We can’t stand the ‘sigh’ nor the ‘peruke’

Posted on March 6, 2015 by mafalda

Edmund Gosse’s anthology, English Odes, was published by Kegan Paul in 1881. John Addington Symonds, translator, biographer and historian of the Italian Renaissance, had established his home at Davos in search of cure for tubercolosis, and made friends with RLS. … Continue reading →

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