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#92:  TWO FRENCH POETS.  Another figure lingering in the shadowed back lanes of fame is Théophile Gautier, the poet, novelist, travel...

#91: A MASTER OF THE ART. The official and immutable cliché of Japanese literature is that the three greatest haiku poets are Basho,...

#90: A NEW PLACEMENT OF CORPSES. When a genre has gone on as long as the detective story has, an arriving writer has to come up with...