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... name of a single military victory . English literature , like other literatures , is full of battle - poems , but it is ... names of the great battles that finally broke the German armies are simply unknown to the general public . The ...
... name of a single military victory . English literature , like other literatures , is full of battle - poems , but it is ... names of the great battles that finally broke the German armies are simply unknown to the general public . The ...
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... names . The only poets who are widely read are Byron , who is admired for the wrong reasons , and Oscar Wilde , who is pitied as a victim of English hypocrisy . And linked up with this , though not very obviously , is the lack of ...
... names . The only poets who are widely read are Byron , who is admired for the wrong reasons , and Oscar Wilde , who is pitied as a victim of English hypocrisy . And linked up with this , though not very obviously , is the lack of ...
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... name a particular moment , one can say that the old distinction between Right and Left broke down when Picture Post was first published . What are the politics of Picture Post ? Or of Cavalcade , or Priestley's broadcasts , or the ...
... name a particular moment , one can say that the old distinction between Right and Left broke down when Picture Post was first published . What are the politics of Picture Post ? Or of Cavalcade , or Priestley's broadcasts , or the ...
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