by McManusFan » 14 Jan 2022 Read
Think JB has it, but if not maybe Mark Twain?
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by HappyCamper » 15 Jan 2022 Read
T S Eliot is an excellent, if not correct, guess. The correct answer is was a contemporary of him.
Not Twain, who was as American as apple pie.
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by HappyCamper » 17 Jan 2022 Read
LDS wrote:Edgar Allen Poe?
no.
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by HappyCamper » 17 Jan 2022 Read
clue. his others works include the poems night mail about a postal railway service, in memory of w. b. yeats an elegy to eponymous poet, and the fall of rome about the end of the roman empire.
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by HappyCamper » 18 Jan 2022 Read
not john betjeman.
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by HappyCamper » 18 Jan 2022 Read
not shaw, who was irish.
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by HappyCamper » 18 Jan 2022 Read
Not Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who died about a century too early.
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by HappyCamper » 18 Jan 2022 Read
LDS wrote:J B Priestly.
um, no.
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by SnookerEd25 » 18 Jan 2022 Read
J.R. Hartley?
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by HappyCamper » 18 Jan 2022 Read
LDS wrote:Errrnssst Hemingway.
not ernest hemmingway.
LDS wrote:SnookerEd25 wrote:J.R. Hartley?
That was going to be my next one
do you mean lp hartley? then no.
otherwise, no.
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by McManusFan » 19 Jan 2022 Read
Auden?
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by SnookerEd25 » 19 Jan 2022 Read
LDS wrote:SnookerEd25 wrote:J.R. Hartley?
That was going to be my next one
It’s available to the highest bidder…
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by HappyCamper » 19 Jan 2022 Read
McManusFan wrote:Auden?
correct. it was w. h. auden.
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by LDS » 19 Jan 2022 Read
SnookerEd25 wrote:LDS wrote:SnookerEd25 wrote:J.R. Hartley?
That was going to be my next one
It’s available to the highest bidder…
Hmm, sounds fishy. What's the catch?
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by SnookerEd25 » 19 Jan 2022 Read
LDS wrote:SnookerEd25 wrote:LDS wrote:SnookerEd25 wrote:J.R. Hartley?
That was going to be my next one
It’s available to the highest bidder…
Hmm, sounds fishy. What's the catch?
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by McManusFan » 19 Jan 2022 Read
One of W.H. Auden's poems is 'In Praise of Limestone'. Which British national Park is home to around half of Britain's limestone pavements?
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by chengdufan » 19 Jan 2022 Read
Lake District?
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by McManusFan » 19 Jan 2022 Read
Not the lakes.
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by McManusFan » 19 Jan 2022 Read
Not the beacons.
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by HappyCamper » 19 Jan 2022 Read
Peak District.
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