{"id":758,"date":"2007-08-21T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2007-12-08T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:47:34","slug":"is-this-the-end-of-english-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Is This The End Of English Literature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=NEB2IDPMMU00JQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=\/opinion\/2007\/08\/20\/do2005.xml\">A.N. Wilson writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story2\">What do the following have in common: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T S Eliot, W B Yeats, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">The answer is, of course, that if they were to come back to life in Gordon Brown&#8217;s Britain and wanted to go out to their club, or a restaurant or caf&eacute;, they would not be allowed to indulge in a habit which sustained them during the most creative phases of their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">The moment they popped their favoured cigar, cigarette or pipe between their lips and lit up, they would have been fined on the spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">&#8230;I have been racking my brains to find a single non-smoker among the great English poets or novelists of the 17th, 18th, 19th or 20th centuries. Possibly, Keats had to lay off the pipe tobacco a bit after he developed tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">Otherwise, from Swift and Pope to Cowper and Wordsworth, from Byron to Charles Lamb, they were all smokers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.N. Wilson writes: What do the following have in common: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T S Eliot, W B Yeats, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis? The answer is, of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}