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Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: Lucretius and the Book Hunters

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In his new book, The Swerve, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt tells the story of an ancient poem and a manuscript explorer, and resurrects a time when people truly loved books.

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