I actually had to do that King Lear essay when I was a kid - that's a word for word transcription.
And Millie's opinions of TS Eliot pretty well mirror my own. I will show you pretentious twaddle in a handful of dust. I deliberately got the title of The Waste Land wrong. No-one complained, which was quite surprising as poetry and the Daily Mirror have a surprisingly close connection. As recently as last year, the Poet Laureate Carol Anne Duffy selected a poem to be printed once a week in the Woman's page, and I can remember Kingsley Amis doing a poetry column while Millie was appearing in the paper. Not what you'd expect from a brash British tabloid, is it?
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