However, literature (poetry in particular) remained his main love.

UNESCO: The Uses of Richard Hoggart

Novelist Sinclair Lewis rose to fame in the 1920s (and won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature) by satirizing small-town small-mindedness, in Main Street and Babbitt.

FORBES: Tiny Titans

No complete work of native-born literature survives, and successive invasions have obscured the physical traces of the island's main cities.

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