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Post by amyghost on Aug 8, 2018 18:11:40 GMT
Dunno if he counts as 'deranged lunatic', but apparently V.S. Naipaul is one exceptionally nasty human being, if multiple accounts (including his biographer's) are to be believed.
"William Blake?"
English nature poet John Clare was confined to a lunatic asylum in his later life, from which he once escaped, but was later returned. He continued to write poems there for the remainder of his life, under the care of a humane asylum doctor.
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