Article: All poetic roads lead to Florence; A Golden Ring. By Charles Hobday (Peter Owen, pounds 25). Reviewed by R ichard Edmonds.

In this splendid book on English poets in Florence, which ranges from the 14th century to the present day, Charles Hobday notes that there were probably more British poets and novelists in Florence during the 1850s than at any other time in the city's hi story.

But reading this lively but informative text, you conclude that it was the Brownings, Robert and Elizabeth, who exerted a kind of gravitational pull on Florentine society in the middle of the century.

All kinds of people were drawn to their salon, from Frederick Tennyson, the Poet Laureate's elder ...

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