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Funny, but not Vulgar

George Orwell

Funny, but not Vulgar, 1945 [L.m./F.s.: 2019-12-29 / 0.15 KiB]
‘The Great age of English humorous writing — not witty and not satirical, but simply humorous — was the first three quarters of the nineteenth century. ... And comic verse has lost all its vitality — there has been no English light verse of any value within this century, except Mr. Belloc's, and a poem or two by Chesterton...’

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