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Clive James | 'The book of my enemy has been remainderedAnd I ...
'The book of my enemy has been remainderedAnd I rejoice...What avail him now his awards and prizes,The praise expended upon his meticulous technique,His individual new voice?'
'Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer -and if so, why?'