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Tony Harrison: The Death of the PWD Man

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The Death of the PWD Man

The Loiners, London: London Magazine Editions, 1970

47-50

Allusion to Classical figure Julius Caesar

Classical/post-Classical intertexts Image of death as 'a Caesar with an earth-cubed Roman spear', cackling veni, vidi, vici . Later chacterised as ‘Julius Seizure’.