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Frederic J. Haskin discusses prohibition's impact on art and literature. The piece surveys how drinking aided famous writers and asks whether bans will stifle young talent, noting writers, poets, and magaxine fiction alike face new constraints and opportunities under prohibition.
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Frederic J. Haskin Washingdson
D. C
Aiso
Hartmann
Greenwich Village
Whitman
Poe
Swinburne
Baltimore
Robert Burns
Certaily Burns
Wagner
Nietzche
de Quincey
Wilkie Collins
Dickens
Jack London
John Barleycorn
Lgquor
Will Levington Comfort
Shakespeare
Eizabethan
Mermaid Tavern
Dr. Johnson
Lamb
Haztitt
Hillaire Belloc
Gilbert IX
Chesterton
England