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This book — amber-clear, cool and with a good head — deserves a thoughtful swig even from people who never drink.

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How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

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The lesson is that dying men must groan;
And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear.


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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

John Wain

John Wain

Born: March 14, 1925
Died: May 24, 1994 (aged 69)
Bio: John Barrington Wain was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group "The Movement". For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio.
Known for:
  1. Hurry on Down (1953)
  2. A Winter in the Hills (1970)
  3. The smaller sky (1967)
  4. Strike the father dead (1962)
  5. Young Shoulders (1982)

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