Re: Shakespeare, Coke, Bacon, Egerton
Carrol Cox wrote:
Joanna doesn’t appreciate John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, who (considering his early death) wrote a quite astounding body of great poems. But in any case “aristocrat” (in the sense of titled nobility) is too narrow a category. Milton came from a very substantial family. Byron doesn’t count, but Shelley came from a substantial “gentleman’s” background.
And wasn’t Forster the only canonical Brit novelist of the 19th and early 20th cent who didn’t come from some kind of upper-class background?
Doug