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Clive James on Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’

November 25, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

The duke’s suavely heightened conversational virtuosity, as if emanating from the carefully trimmed beard of Vincent Price by firelight, doubles the impact when we realise that he is as nutty as a fruitcake.

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