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Clare Bucknell

Clare Bucknell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her book about the social history of poetry anthologies, The Treasuries, was published in February. (March 2023)

Cannibals and Guillotines

Far from a straightforward propagandist, the caricaturist James Gillray preferred pleasing, or irritating, many different kinds of customers.

James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire

by Tim Clayton

March 9, 2023 issue

‘So Whimsical a Head’

A new biography of Charles Lamb, the first in over a century, marks an important staging post on the writer’s road back to respectability.

Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb

by Eric G. Wilson

August 18, 2022 issue

Wits’ End

Pat Rogers’s new book is salutary because it gives us a modern sense of Alexander Pope, a figure usually portrayed as ultra-traditional.

The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham Versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street

by Pat Rogers

October 21, 2021 issue

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