In 1920, when I was about seventeen, I probably knew the whole of the Shropshire Lad by heart. Among people who were adolescent in the years 1910-25, Housman had an influence which was enormous and is now not at all easy to understand. At the beginning of the period I am speaking of, the years during and immediately after the war, the writer who had the deepest hold upon the thinking young was almost certainly Housman. When one says that a writer is fashionable one practically always means that he is admired by people under thirty.
Of ' Inside The Whale' by George Orwell (1940) 'Inside The Whale' part 2, by George Orwell (1940) Part 2
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