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A Guidepost in Our Current Misery
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The Last Cavalier Poet
Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose edited by Robert Asch
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Son of Odysseus
Telegonos: A Tragedy in Verse by Jonathan Golding
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What Is Memory For?
Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War by Joseph T. Stuart
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