Heloise
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The best account of the story of Heloise and Abelard, the inspiration behind this poem, remains Helen’s Waddell’s Peter Abelard. Unhappy Heloise, as long as though breathest It is decreed thou must love Abelard. SHE HEARS WHAT HAS BEFALLEN HIM So to her confines there comes a horseman, Riding by night and in haste, To
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It was my birthday last week and, in one way of looking at it, too many years have gone by, without enough achieved, and it’s all downhill from here. A few books written – but not enough, and not successful enough – and too much time spent in ‘the whole corroding business of administration’, as
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