In another nonfiction work, this author criticized the zoologist Lancelot Hogben's sentence, which begins "Above all, we cannot play ducks and drakes with a native battery of idioms which prescribes egregious collocationsÂ…" before this author advocates using an Anglo-Saxon phrase when that would suffice.
This man argued that all writers write out of some combination of sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose, but that his own primary motivation for writing is not to produce a work of art, but because "there is some lie to expose." In another nonfiction work, this author criticized the zoologist Lancelot Hogben's sentence, which begins "Above all, we cannot play ducks and drakes with a native battery of idioms which prescribes egregious collocationsÂ…" before this author advocates using an Anglo-Saxon phrase when that would suffice. Another essay by this thinker notes that the death of a taxi driver with a cleft chin lacks "depth of feeling," and that the crimes perpetrated by Dr. Palmer and Joseph Smith are above it, but Jack the Ripper is in a class of his own. In a politically themed essay, he translated a sentence of Ecclesiastes into modern English of the worst sort. For 10 points, identify this author of "The Decline of the English Murder" and "Politics and the English Language," who also wrote the novels Burmese Days and Animal Farm.
This man argued that all writers write out of some combination of sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose, but that his own primary motivation for writing is not to produce a work of art, but because "there is some lie to expose."
George Orwell [or Eric Arthur Blair]