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October 2012
In Literary Names, Alastair Fowler describes the surprising ways authors have christened their characters
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John Gay's poem, "Wine" is not a burlesque, as Dr Johnson proclaimed it, but a sophisticated tribute to Milton's "Paradise Lost"
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