Of this volume's three sections the middle one, Visits to the Cemetery of the Long Alive, scarifyingly describes the anguish of the very old who would rather die. In A Sepia Garden the poet...
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Vernon Lee
The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian
, which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artist Guido Reni
