An Age Like This: 1920-1940

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and...
Cyril Connolly

Cyril Vernon Connolly (1903 -1974) was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940 - 1949) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobio...
T.s. Eliot

T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth centurys major poets." Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), which is seen ...
John Flory

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