Agamemnon's Tomb

Agamemnon's Tomb

"Agamemnon's Tomb" is a 1972 book of poetry by Sacheverell Sitwell.

Quoted in Mary Douglas's "Purity and Danger", London : Routledge and Kegan Ltd, 1967.


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