In an essay, this writer analyzed the successive schools of literature following World War I and explained that 1930s writers were attracted to communism because they needed something to believe in.
This writer negatively compared the present age to Walt Whitman's, saying that there is "less emphasis on the cradle, endlessly rocking" and more on "the teapot, endlessly stewing." This author wrote that in the East, "a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get...the vaguer it becomes." In an essay, this writer analyzed the successive schools of literature following World War I and explained that 1930s writers were attracted to communism because they needed something to believe in. This writer praised the passive attitude taken by (*) Henry Miller in Tropic of Cancer, analogizing him to Jonah in "Inside the Whale." In an essay by this author, the mahout is the only person who can handle an animal that has "gone must," and the narrator kills it "to avoid looking a fool." For 10 points, name this British author, whose time in Burma inspired his essay "Shooting an Elephant."
This writer negatively compared the present age to Walt Whitman's, saying that there is "less emphasis on the cradle, endlessly rocking" and more on "the teapot, endlessly stewing.
George Orwell [accept Eric Arthur Blair]