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By Jim Yoakum

Set in 1917, the best dwelling Englishman tells the comedic adventures of "England's Worst Poet," Colin Gilfeather Millaney, an egotistical, self-proclaimed, poet who's completely untouched with even the faintest speck of expertise. he's so lousy that individuals throw rotten produce at him at the streets. They purchase it, simply to throw it at him. yet that doesn't cease him from penning his doggerel, or causing it upon the “misguided” public. while a letter arrives, inviting him to come back to ny and journey, examining his “runaway bestselling” booklet of poetry, he's off like a shot. yet, his not likely upward push to repute is because of a clerical mistakes on the publishing house—it is the paintings of the budding younger poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, they've got published—not Millaney. however it is simply too overdue to fix the error, as Millaney is on his means.

The maximum residing Englishman satirizes the commodification of the humanities, whereas roasting those who find themselves greater than longing for the banquet.

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