Through the burgeoning university network, it was suddenly possible to think of oneself as a national poet, even if the nation turned out to consist … - Wilfrid Sheed

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Through the burgeoning university network, it was suddenly possible to think of oneself as a national poet, even if the nation turned out to consist entirely of English departments.

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About Wilfrid Sheed

Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed (born December 27 1930 – 19 January 2011) was an English-born American novelist and essayist.

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Alternative Names: Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed
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Childhood lays itself out, like a novel, he suggests, complete with central observer, fixed characters, and linear plot. Later, life disperses itself into anecdotes. At twenty-one, it no longer strictly matters whether the author went first to Ireland and then to Spain, or Spain first. And after thirty, he could stitch the pages in backward for all we care.

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