"There is a supreme God in the ethnological section; ... His smooth wood creeps with all the creeds of the world."
— William Empson

January 1, 1970

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Literary criticsPoets from EnglandUniversity of Cambridge alumniAcademics from the United KingdomFellows of the British Academy
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