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Word: dogbiscuit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...languid prose of a great verse stylist. Sometimes crotchety, more often bright and sound, Ezra's remarks concern the works of Dante, Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Harold Monro, Laurence Binyon ("The younger generation may have forgotten Binyon's sad youth, poisoned in the cradle by the abominable dogbiscuit of Milton's rhetoric.") Also his famous piece on "How to Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History & Argument | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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