Of course, Orwell's well-known essay 'Politics and the English Language' is
an excellent discussion of the issues
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit
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> poets of peculiar political clarity. And it should be so still.
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> To use the dead white male canon,
> Auden/Orwell/Hemingway/Brenan saw action in Spain. The
> singular horrors of that war would distill political thought, surely.
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> Caleb
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