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A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with DDT.
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It follows that, if society wants to be civilized, it must establish conditions favourable to the preservation of the gifted few.
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Chesterton had a body like a slag heap, but a mind like the dawn sky. He saw the world new, as if he'd just landed from another planet.
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Even the greatest poets need something to cling to. Keats had Beauty; Milton had God. T. S. Eliot's standby was Worry.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
April 5, 1934
(age 90)
Bio:
John Carey is a British literary critic, and post-retirement emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books.
Known for:
The Faber Book of Science
Thackeray
Milton Complete Shorter Poems
Andrew Marvell: a critical anthology
Here comes Dickens
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