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4 unusual facts about Robert Langbaum


Robert Langbaum

Out of Africa, the book for which she is best known, was also published in 1934, though it recollects a much earlier period, the many years in which she managed a coffee farm in Kenya.

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He shows that Eliot’s early poetry (“Prufrock,” The Waste Land) is romantic, and that his poetry as a whole, despite his claim of objectivity, is mainly autobiographical.

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In 1964 Langbaum published an edition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest with his introduction.

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Jude the Obscure (1895) is Hardy’s gloomiest and most revolutionary novel.



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