Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediately grasped by everyone. We have been far too accustomed to regard England as we would like it to be. Thus we honor Shakespeare as we would a German classical poet, overlooking the fact that the very qualities that we admire in him made him a poor example of Englishman...
Wyndham Lewis, an Englishman who is primarily an author and an artist and only in the second place a political writer and pamphleteer, thinks his country will "win" the war it is engaged...
...great collection of Byron's letters owned by Publisher John Murray. His Byron: The Years of Fame was the sprightly result; his preoccupation with the 18th Century followed. In the spirit of the age, Quennell has rapidly taken three wives, all blondes and beauties. As a 20th-century Englishman short of cash, he works full time for an advertising agency (now moved to Brighton...