As an Englishman, I can feel in my bones the sense of what English nationality implies; I feel intimately, for instance, the things that enable me to claim Shakespeare or Jane Austen or Dickens as typically English, without being able to put into words the things that make them so.
Laski expresses the deep, instinctive connection he feels to English nationality through its literary figures.
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