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woolly minded 47 panegyric 47 Emersonian 46 blackguard 46 fitly 46 forsooth 46 DH Lawrence 46 Yeats poem 46 UA Fanthorpe 46 ungifted 46 Nonconformist 46 anthologist 46 Percy Shelley 46 Julien Benda 46 erudite 46 Don Armado 46 poem Invictus 46 Keats Ode 46 immortally 46 poet William Wordsworth 46 popularizers 46 Kenneth Tynan 46 apologist CS 46 Béla Lugosi 46 Chaucerian 46 Bulwer Lytton 46 versifier 46 Basbanes 46 Thomas Malory 46 Tom Rakewell 46 aristos 46 Percy Bysshe Shelley 46 versifying 46 metaphysician 46 Davenant 46 Auberon Waugh 46 Straussian 46 Faulknerian 46 Arthur Koestler 46 poetical 46 Chaucer Shakespeare 46 Bruccoli 46 Martin Chuzzlewit 46 Lacanian 46 Jerzy Kosinski 46 Hillaire Belloc 46 armchair philosopher 46 Icelandic sagas 46 André Gide 46 de Boinod 46 Edmund Blunden 46 Billie Whitelaw 46 Cibber 46 medievalist 46 theologian Reinhold Niebuhr 46 wickedly clever 46 unreliable narrators 46 ironist 46 Erich Fromm 46 Sophoclean 46 Launcelot Gobbo 46 Edmund Blackadder 46 Myles na 46 logicians 46 Melville Moby Dick 46 novelist Ayn Rand 46 AC Grayling 46 populariser 46 Radclyffe Hall 46 autobiographer 46 Maxime Rodinson 46 autodidactic 46 Anouilh 46 Emperor Caligula 46 Arthur Schopenhauer 46 humorist PG Wodehouse 46 fogeyish 46 Holmesian 46 Gustave Flaubert 46 Anthony Trollope 46 JB Priestley 46 Shakespearean scholar 46 Emmanuel Kant 46 Shakspere 46 rebarbative 46 Delingpole 46 Steven Berkoff 46 Septimus Hodge 46 pompous ass 46 Nicholas Lezard 46 JB Priestly 46 Shakespeare sonnets 46 Pickwick Papers 46 Snobbery 46 women libber 46 Roy Hattersley 46 poet WH Auden 46 Nietzschean 46 Mervyn Peake 46 Alan Sillitoe 46 Sax Rohmer 45 delightfully witty 45 Anita Brookner 45 Wackford Squeers 45 W Somerset Maugham 45 Brideshead 45 Claire Tomalin 45 boulevardier 45 Antonin Artaud 45 aristocratic lineage 45 Joyce Ulysses 45 Catherine Morland 45 ungrammatically 45 dandyism 45 Bildungsroman 45 Declan Kiberd 45 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 45 Hazel Motes 45 Nietzche 45 rhetoricians 45 formalists 45 Lord Sebastian Flyte 45 Morte d' 45 Anglophilic 45 William Cowper 45 Classicist 45 rhyming verse 45 Greek philosopher Aristotle 45 Richard Brautigan 45 EM Forster 45 Silas Marner 45 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 45 Søren Kierkegaard 45 Fuseli 45 Shakepeare 45 Arthurian legends 45 Madame de Staël 45 René Descartes 45 epistolary novel 45 Lady Gay Spanker 45 Ronald Firbank 45 philosopher theologian 45 Nina Raine 45 Malthusianism 45 empiricist 45 Algernon Swinburne 45 Manliness 45 rara avis 45 Brian Aldiss 45 Archilochus 45 sesquipedalian 45 AE Housman 45 Gods Behaving Badly 45 poesy 45 voluminous writings 45 voluptuary 45 Doctor Faustus 45 Schopenhauer 45 Dick Deadeye 45 Childe Harold Pilgrimage 45 punster 45 Leftie 45 Horace Walpole 45 novel Moby Dick 45 Paul Verlaine 45 schoolmasterly 45 Lafcadio 45 Emerson Thoreau 45 Borgesian 45 Maurice Merleau Ponty 45 grumbler 45 Philanderer 45 bibliophile 45 Malcolm Muggeridge 45 Gouverneur Morris 45 tweed clad 45 Hamlet soliloquy 45 francophile 45 Gaudy Night 45 Abraham Heschel 45 Frederico Garcia Lorca 45 poet Rudyard Kipling 45 historian AJP Taylor 45 Krafft Ebing 45 Ideal Husband 45 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay 45 Oscar Wilde Dorian Gray 45 pompous twit 45 Camoletti 45 Betjeman 45 obituarist 45 philologist 45 polemicist 45 sensualist 45 actor Charles Laughton 45 Niccolò Machiavelli 45 solipsist 45 Voltaire Candide 45 Andre Gide 45 Lady Ottoline Morrell 45 Kafka Metamorphosis 45 Tim McInnerny 45 Ivan Turgenev 45 Margaret Drabble 45 TH Huxley 45 Francis Wheen 45 situationists 45 eruditely 45 Objectivist 45 Kant Critique 45 existentialists 45 Mrs Gaskell 45 Cervantes Don Quixote 45 epigram 45 Norse myth 45 Louis Althusser 45 Fanny Kemble 45 Philip Langridge 45 Pythonesque 45 literary masterpiece 45 Bloodaxe 45 Homeric 44 intellectuality 44 Aidan McArdle 44 unacademic 44 luvvie 44 viscount 44 Glyn Maxwell 44 Sir Wilfred Thesiger 44 Burne Jones 44 literary allusion 44 Four Quartets 44 scallywag 44 John Everett Millais 44 Dashiell Hammet 44 Rabelaisian 44 Hogarthian 44 ineffably sad 44 Plantagenets 44 Shakespearean 44 infantilisation 44 polymath 44 poet AE Housman 44 urbane wit 44 Jane Austen 44 WC Heinz 44 Langrishe 44 Jane Austen Charles Dickens 44 Cesare Beccaria 44 Conceit 44 Edward Gibbon 44 Hesione 44 wizard Dumbledore 44 guttersnipe 44 Niall Buggy 44 Luciferian 44 nameless protagonist 44 French playwright Moliere 44 Elizabethan era 44 reviser 44 animality 44 Frank Kermode 44 nincompoop 44 bardic 44 dramatist 44 TS Eliot 44 GK Chesterton 44 literary 44 Gerald Brenan 44 Mina Harker 44 Neville Cardus 44 sociobiology 44 Gratiano 44 sluttish 44 dryly humorous 44 Pantagruel 44 Ursula K. LeGuin 44 Lipsyte 44 endearingly eccentric 44 Stephen Dedalus 44 mawkish sentimentality 44 autobiographical essay 44 Rabelais 44 Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 44 Moliére 44 Plato dialogues 44 novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne 44 Symmons Roberts 44 Currer Bell 44 egghead 44 Dostoevski 44 Uncommon Reader 44 Fitzwilliam Darcy 44 Vendler 44 Alphonse Daudet 44 Blackstone Commentaries 44 neurasthenic 44 Peter Ackroyd 44 emotionally constipated 44 Flann O'Brien 44 literary modernism 44 plowman 44 Italo Svevo 44 Kathryn Meisle 44 psychoanalyse 44 phallocentric 44 Beatrice Lillie 44 Hew Strachan 44 Mary Wollstonecraft 44 TS Elliot 44 Weird Sisters 44 roundheads 44 Robert Nozick 44 latterday 44 writer Fran Lebowitz 44 Steven Barkhimer 44 Maxim Gorky 44 Enlightenment philosopher 44 Cusk 44 priests bullying schoolmasters 44 Giraudoux 44 opera libretto 44 ardent admirer 44 Mrs Malaprop 44 Philosophical Investigations 44 Cheerfulness 44 fabulism 44 Nicolo Machiavelli 44 polymathic 44 Intelligent Design ID 44 Siegfried Sassoon 44 Tom Driberg 44 epistemologically 44 Olive Schreiner 44 Richard Brookhiser 44 de Maupassant 44 Prince Myshkin 44 JRR Tolkein 44 Shakspeare 44 moralist 44 sententious 44 situationist 44 Borstal Boy 44 Mortimer Adler 44 devilishly charming 44 Louis De Bernieres 44 JBS Haldane 44 miserablist 44 priggish 44 carouser 44 wastrel 44 jazz improviser 44 Lysander Spooner 44 Parmenides 44 Tóibín 44 Emily Bronte 44 Janeites 44 Christopher Lasch 44 mustache twirling villain 44 Beatlemaniac 44 acidulous 44 Jodhi May 44 Tolkein 44 Michael Moorcock 44 historian Arnold Toynbee 44 allegorically 44 Académie Française 44 Harlan Ellison 44 Unknown Terrorist 44 divines 44 bookish intellectual 44 aristocratic 44 Lao tzu 44 cleareyed 44 Hegelian dialectic 44 Gormenghast 44 magus 44 Aby Warburg 44 Transcendentalists 44 China Mieville 44 lovable curmudgeon 44 Adrienne Rich 44 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 43 Shakespeare Moliere 43 religionist 43 miserabilism 43 Monthy Python 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Georges Perec 43 Isaac Babel 43 AE Houseman 43 romanticist 43 Fredric Jameson 43 Lord Tennyson 43 Mabinogion 43 Wittgenstein 43 Lovecraftian horror 43 pricelessly 43 Et tu Brute 43 Baroness Orczy 43 playwright Christopher Durang 43 Old Harrovian 43 ripping yarns 43 Ezra Pound 43 Ibsen Ghosts 43 Joyce Dubliners 43 Lonely Crowd 43 magical realist 43 Louis Ferdinand Céline 43 dilettantism 43 Leigh Teabing 43 thuddingly obvious 43 Plautus 43 superciliousness 43 Gillray 43 Lois McMaster Bujold 43 poet WB Yeats 43 Robert Skidelsky 43 Canterbury Tales 43 CP Cavafy 43 Katharine Whitehorn 43 nameless narrator 43 poet Percy Bysshe 43 GWF Hegel 43 frock coated 43 Eliot Weinberger 43 Jacques Lacan 43 Cavafy 43 mountebank 43 wonderfully eccentric 43 illustrator Edward Gorey 43 Chaucer Canterbury Tales 43 Gershom Scholem 43 What Maisie Knew 43 Hamlet Othello 43 Balliol College Oxford 43 knave 43 Arnold Toynbee 43 Bette Bourne 43 philosopher Ayn Rand 43 sentimentalist 43 elegant prose 43 Edith Sitwell 43 Karimi Hakkak 43 fiercely possessive 43 Ted van Griethuysen 43 UFOlogist 43 Pardoner 43 Antoninus 43 preachment 43 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 43 lyrical prose 43 introductory essay 43 solitariness 43 philosophe 43 diabolism 43 gorehound 43 Daniel Lapaine 43 Homeric epic 43 postmodernists 43 Philip Madoc 43 fictionalized autobiography 43 gentlewomen 43 bard 43 Ben Jonson 43 Psychopathia Sexualis 43 Anglophile 43 Silmarillion 43 Sassenach 43 Brontës 43 Zukofsky 43 Masoch 43 Foucheux 43 Pastoral Epistles 43 Kenneth Branagh Hamlet 43 Andre Bazin 43 controversialist 43 Versati 43 Bernanos 43 Wickedness 43 prolix 43 wry witty 43 proto feminist 43 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 43 poetic prose 43 Joolz Denby 43 Pinteresque 43 Parolles 43 Andrew Delbanco 43 Auberon 43 Clifton Fadiman 43 Rocco Sisto 43 Gore Vidal 43 Brother Cadfael 43 Djuna Barnes 43 Shakespere 43 Johann von Goethe 43 Nonso Anozie 43 Herzogian 43 scholarly tome 43 Eumenides 43 de nos jours 43 eponymous protagonist 43 Dave Spart 43 Hugh Nees 43 Aleister Crowley 43 Sam Lipsyte 43 CS Forester 43 Hans Altwies 43 William Empson 43 Robert Tressell 43 dottiness 43 doggerel 43 Eminent Victorians 43 nostalgist 43 Brooksian 43 willfully obtuse 43 Welshness 43 John Betjeman 43 dilettante 43 Lovecraft 43 literary canon 43 delightfully wicked 43 Philip Larkin 43 speaketh 43 Leopold von Sacher 43 James Gillray 43 poetic sensibility 43 Theodore Roszak 43 wholly unsympathetic 43 George Dvorsky 43 Faerie Queen 43 Desmond Barrit 43 Edalji 43 Theodore Zeldin 43 eidetic memory 43 expostulation 43 Jürgen Habermas 43 Lord Dunsany 43 Vasily Aksyonov 43 Catiline 43 beardie 43 Simon Callow 43 Torah scholar 43 Beckettian 43 Deresiewicz 43 Norse myths 43 knight errant 43 Tractatus Logico 43 Herman Hesse 43 Sejanus 43 Principia Mathematica 42 Nirad Chaudhuri 42 Yourcenar 42 billet doux 42 Sir Andrew Aguecheek 42 scholarly essays 42 Sophocles Electra 42 wordsmithery 42 Leatherstocking Tales 42 Stephen Pinker 42 Kehlmann 42 Norse sagas 42 Concise Oxford 42 Maja Ardal 42 Soren Kierkegaard 42 lexicographer Samuel Johnson 42 EM Cioran 42 suitably regal 42 Kaspar Hauser 42 backwoodsman 42 Tacitus 42 poet 42 Michael Frayn Copenhagen 42 antinomian 42 Biblical literalism 42 Francis Fukayama 42 Flaubert 42 Monty Woolley 42 Canaris 42 Louvish 42 self dramatizing 42 prig 42 Christopher Marlowe 42 empiricists 42 hagiographical 42 moral absolutism 42 trivium 42 Heinrich Böll 42 masturbatory fantasy 42 Jiddu Krishnamurti 42 eminently respectable 42 Zecharia Sitchin 42 Oscar Levant 42 Elbert Hubbard 42 Shakespeareans 42 Taruskin 42 Hippolytus 42 Lady Marchmain 42 epigraphs 42 Menand 42 bildungsroman 42 Strachey 42 toffs 42 Denholm Elliott 42 Malvolio 42 Noël Coward 42 De Bernières 42 Webster dictionary defines 42 Lawrence Wetherhold Dennis Quaid 42 Jay Parini 42 Jamie Pachino 42 Perkin Warbeck 42 Harriet Martineau 42 percipient 42 metanarrative 42 David Thoreau Walden 42 humourists 42 journalist Christopher Hitchens 42 Marx Freud 42 Alberto Manguel 42 Lord Marchmain 42 humorlessness 42 Cendrars 42 Jules Verne HG Wells 42 CS Lewis 42 Toni Morrison Beloved 42 Oedipus Complex 42 plummy voiced 42 bumbling buffoon 42 Trevor Roper 42 Miguel de Unamuno 42 meritocrats 42 secret sharer 42 Bunthorne 42 Dostoevsky 42 humanist 42 Auden 42 anally retentive 42 Kit Marlowe 42 Witold Gombrowicz 42 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 42 intelligencia 42 Petrarch 42 Maud Gonne 42 callow 42 reductio ad absurdum 42 Lucretius 42 feminist critique 42 Martha Gellhorn 42 Adrian McKinty 42 Nicholas Woodeson 42 Kenneth Cranham 42 intellectual snobbery 42 bien pensant 42 Louis MacNeice 42 Tuppy 42 Gayatri Spivak 42 Svevo 42 Jacobean tragedy 42 Terence Rattigan 42 Gwendolen 42 Bernard Bailyn 42 unjustly neglected 42 Tamburlaine 42 Ottoline 42 Philippa Gregory novel 42 sketchwriter 42 orotund 42 Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales 42 Austen heroine 42 Banjo Patterson 42 estimable talents 42 Samuel Pepys 42 elocutionist 42 Andrew Billen 42 erudition 42 Shakespearian 42 Hindoo 42 humorist Mark Twain 42 Wodehouse 42 critic Kenneth Tynan 42 Captain Shotover 42 mathematical geniuses 42 Pre Raphaelites 42 La Rochefoucauld 42 avant la lettre 42 wreaks vengeance 42 absurdist playwright 42 Richard Rorty 42 deistic 42 Hannie Rayson 42 Brideshead Revisted 42 Shakespearian tragedy 42 Jean Francois Revel 42 Bronte sisters 42 dipsomaniac 42 Socrates Plato 42 Fagunwa 42 delightfully irreverent 42 Sir Tom Stoppard 42 determinist 42 Studs Lonigan 42 Cambridge Footlights 42 Fanny Burney 42 Bridgetower 42 bhadralok 42 Wilfrid Sheed 42 Oblomov 42 classical mythology 42 Turgenev 42 masculinist 42 Shelley Frankenstein 42 Inadmissible Evidence 42 rollickingly 42 Dost thou 42 Israel Zangwill 42 Leonato 42 Mordden 42 Evelyn Waugh novel 42 Françoise Sagan 42 Alcestis 42 self abnegating 42 Fernand Braudel 42 historian Simon Schama 42 Neo conservatism 42 self mythologizing 42 authorial 42 Theists 42 Pierre Bourdieu 42 gentlewoman 42 mumbler 42 Zastrozzi 42 Mencken 42 contemporary playwrights 42 progressivist 42 Bucky Sinister 42 cantos 42 Conradian 42 Randall Jarrell 42 neo orthodox 42 Richard Ingrams 42 Wilfred Owen 42 Vincent Ferrini 42 William Butler Yeats 42 Ned Sherrin 42 Laurie Colwin 42 Tristram Shandy 42 Ronald Dworkin 42 Sir Donald Wolfit 42 Hebrew scripture 42 critic Greil Marcus 42 Thomistic 42 Jeanette Winterson 42 Aristotelian logic 42 Judith Krantz 42 pseudo intellectualism 42 Angelica Torn 42 Oxbridge educated 42 Kevin Gudahl 42 Alain Badiou 42 Richard Suart 42 pseudo intellectuals 42 Gerry Bamman 42 Sir Trevor Nunn 42 pedantry 42 veddy 42 Tom Nelis 42 de Bernieres 42 Plato Socrates 42 chauvinistic pig 42 courtly gentleman