West Pearsall

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    The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    There is one thing that matters—to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)