Triptych

The politesse of Twelfth Century ballades and rondeaux, rendered with a view to accuracy in assonance; the politic egotism of Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël (and their mutually consuming passion in coach and salon); the political incorrectness — and worse — of Galina Breznheva: these are the similar and dissimilar elements which make up John Watson's Triptych.

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