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the British neo-Romantic tradition,
from 1880 to the present day.
While the British Romantics of 1789-1824 have spawned a vast industry of
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WHAT IS NEO-ROMANTICISM ?
Neo-Romantic artists have drawn their inspiration
from artists of the age of Romanticism or earlier.
Characteristic themes in their work include a
mystical approach to the British landscape...
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ENTRY: "Saki"
Saki (b. December 18, 1870 – d. November 14, 1916) was the pen name of
British author Hector Hugh Munro, an author of witty and sometimes macabre stories.
Saki is considered a master of the short story. His stories are always short but memorable, with delicately
drawn characters and finely judged narratives.
H.H. Munro was born in Akyab, British Burma, the son of Charles Augustus Munro, a Police inspector-general.
He was brought up in England with his brother and sister by his grandmother and aunts, in a straitlaced
household whose comic side he appreciated only later in life.
Munro was schooled at Pencarwick School in Exmouth and the Bedford Grammar School. In 1893
he followed in his father's footsteps by joining the Burma police. Three years later,
failing health forced his resignation and return to England, where he started
his career as a journalist, writing for newspapers. From 1902 to 1908 Munro worked as a foreign correspondent.
At the start of World War I, although officially over age, Munro joined the Army as an ordinary soldier,
refusing a commission. He returned to the battlefield and his men more than once when officially still too sick or
injured to fight. He fell in France, near Beaumont-Hamel, in 1916. Munro was sheltering in a shell
crater when he was killed by a German sniper.
Saki's world contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the
ruthless but straightforward life-and-death struggles of nature. Nature generally wins in the end. Most of his stories are
satirical - but some are fantasies with werewolves, ghosts, and witches.
There are also coded references to homosexuality in hiw works. After his death, his sister Ethel destroyed most of his papers.
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