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Moving from the melodic to the political

these are poems of passion and precipices

the familiar and the strange in poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject matter and return with wry

Gate of Lilacs carcanet repetitiveOver a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacsis the unique product of James's love and engagement with Proust's eternal masterpiece. With la recherche du temps perdu, Proust, in James's words, 'followed his creative instinct all the way until his