Titus Awakes

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Copyright © Maeve Gilmore and Mervyn Peake 2011

Introduction copyright © Brian Sibley 2011

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‘How fly the birds of Heaven save by their wings?’ from A Book of Nonsense (Peter Owen, 1972) reproduced by kind permission of Peter Owen. see here

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