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Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'
Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton
Born: Feb 22, 1943

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Odds, Syntax, Say, Plodding, Poem, Students, Pick, Stereotype, Like, Most, Spot, Metaphor, Curiously, Literature, Apart, Them, Ethnic, Many, Things, Tone

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