Quote of the day
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
F. L. Lucas
Born: December 28, 1894
Died: June 1, 1967 (aged 72)
Bio: Frank Laurence Lucas was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Known for:
- Style (1955)
- The decline and fall of the romantic ideal (1936)
- Seneca and Elizabethan tragedy (1922)
- Euripides and his influence (1923)
- Marionettes (1930)