Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
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V. S. Pritchett was a 19th-century British writer and critic. Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett was a British writer and literary critic. Read more on Wikipedia →