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W. B. Yeats

George Orwell

W. B. Yeats, 1943 [L.m./F.s.: 2019-12-29 / 0.15 KiB]
‘One thing that Marxist criticism has not succeeded in doing is to trace the connection between “tendency” and literary style. The subject-matter and imagery of a book can be explained in sociological terms, but its texture seemingly cannot. Yet some such connection there must be. One knows, for instance, that a Socialist would not write like Chesterton or a Tory imperialist like Bernard Shaw, though how one knows it is not easy to say...’

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