When Humphries writes in propria persona his prose can scar… - Clive James

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When Humphries writes in propria persona his prose can scarcely contain its freight of cultivated allusions. He writes the most nutritiously rococo English in Australia today, but nobody will be able to inherit it. To know him would not be enough. You would have to know what he knows.

Clive James

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Clive James AO, CBE, FRSL (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an expatriate Australian writer, poet, essayist, critic, television personality and commentator on popular culture.

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Alternative Names: Clive Vivian Leopold James • Clive Vivian James • Vivian Leopold James • Vivian Clive Leopold James

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