We were obsessed by the feeling that this was the supreme cause of our time. The cause of poets and of writers. The cause of freedom. And that unless the cause of anti-Fascism was won, unless Fascism was defeated, we would be unable to exist as writers.
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The poet shares with other artists the faculty of seeing things as though for the first time.
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My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as ‘Puritan decadence’. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
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Birth: | 28th February, 1909 |
Death: | 16th July, 1995 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Essayist, Novelist, Poet |
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