Who declared in 1920 that 'there is no longer any intellectual life in England'?
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Correct answer: C. Ezra Pound
Explanation
Pound, disillusioned after the war, left London for Paris in 1920; his farewell to English culture is also the theme of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920).
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