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but Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course

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But in its “combination of number-crunching wonkery and strenuously pious uplift”

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Memorial by Alice Oswald drink but Orwell's reckoning with theMatthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story, and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief 'biographies' of the minor war dead, most of whom are little more