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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Connolly
Age: 71 †
Born: 1903
Born: September 10
Died: 1974
Died: November 26
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Literary Critic
Novelist
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Coventry
England
UK
Cyril Vernon Connolly
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Poetry
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Wells
Snarling
Well
Jackals
Dried
Poets
Arguing
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