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Lees-Milne (1908-1997) began to keep a diary during the middle years of World War II. The first four volumes cover the 1940s in considerable detail, and all take their titles from Coleridge:
First a confession: the works to which I lose my heart tend to be . . . confessional. Intimate. Set down in the first person singular. Oh, I revere Dante, Dostoevsky, and Dickens, and would probably pick either Jane Austen, P. G. Wodehouse, or Evelyn Waugh as the most perfect writer of English prose, and I regard Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Melville's Moby-Dick as the greatest novels in the world. Nothing surprising there. But if first given the Bible, Shakespeare, and a fat anthology of lyric poetry (Sappho to Larkin), and then asked to name my 10 favorite books, I would probably choose the following:
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