LONDON’S GREAT WRITERS
Men have often remarked on the magnetic quality of London to draw all great men to her (writes Mr. S. P. B. Mais in “Imperial London”). That statesmen and lawyers should congregate there is natural, he adds, but that the great literary giants who presumably could get their inspiration where they wished should have elected to live in London requires some explanation. Think for a moment of the list of London’s great writers. It includes Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Buoys, Charles Lamb, Ben Jonson, Lord Macaulay, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, W. M. Thackeray, Algernon Swinburne, Francis Bacon, William Blake, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Lord Chesterfield, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hood, John Keats, John Milton, John Ruskin, Edmund, Spenser, Edward Gibbon and Alexander Pope. A pretty formidable list to have been connected with one city. Only Athens can rival this. And even Athens does not excel it. What is the secret? Partly that greatness breeds greatness as success breeds success.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 7
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164LONDON’S GREAT WRITERS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 7
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