ever since coming across the splendid 'Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover' years ago, despite the fact that his satires make no attempt whatever to conform to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's excellent diktat, "Satire should, like a polished razor keen,/ Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen."from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Poem of the week: This week, some bracing satire from the Earl of Rochester.
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Only two weeks on from his acceptance of a knighthood, which provoked an international furore, Salman Rushdie is in the news again. He and his wife, Padma Lakshmi, are to divorce after three years of marriage.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Rushdie and Lakshmi to divorce
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