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"Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!"

"Irish generosity extended not only to a variety of people but to a variety of ideas. ...they brought into t…"

"The best poetry written in our generation in the British Isles has been in Scottish Gaelic, by Sorley MacLean."

"What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building…"

"The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in …"

"Are 3 Novels, Revised as One, a New Book?" by Charles McGrath, in The New York Times"