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poetry and belief

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BBC
Jun 10 2003
02:04 pm

“Most people do not believe in anything very much, and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.”
—Cyril Connolly (English critic and novelist)

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laurencer
Jun 10 2003
07:19 pm

just to clarify . . . is connolly a critic of the english or a critic from england?

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BBC
Jun 14 2003
02:41 pm

As near as I can figure, Connoly is English by birth, and a literary critic of things written in the English language within the genre of literature that we Americans often refer to in our high schools and colleges as English.

Okay?