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    Robert Thicknesse on Opera

    Apr 29, 2021 3 minutes

    HOW DID A NATION as doughy and uncouth as the English ever produce the world’s greatest body of poetry? It winds foreigners up almost as much as our habit of conducting seminars in international trade with the help of a Maxim gun, and is especially galling for those neighbours who pique themselves on their creativity, notably an island slightly to the left of GB that has omitted ever to trouble the scorers with any sort of worthwhile visual or audial art despite being besotted by its own soulfulness.

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