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There has been an increasing awareness in recent scholarship that Augustus's new political regime created space for an unprecedented rivalry between poets and rulers. For the purpose of this chapter, I focus on Virgil and Ovid, and their attempts to edit, destroy, and self-censor their works.

There has been an increasing awareness in recent scholarship that Augustus's new political regime created space for an unprecedented rivalry between poets and rulers. For the purpose of this chapter, I focus on Virgil and Ovid, and their attempts to edit, destroy, and self-censor their works.

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This article traces the fate of Peregrine Acland (1891–1963), who wrote a critically acclaimed novel based partly on his personal experiences as a Canadian hero of the First World War. He was inspired by George Bernard Shaw, whom he sought out while on military service in England. Documents recently discovered in the advertising archives of Duke University and entries in the diaries of Canada's longest-serving prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, reveal that Acland was later torn between his job as a successful advertising copywriter and his literary ambitions. The article finds that Acland's work for J. Walter Thomson and other advertising agencies, as well as for King, displaced energies that he might otherwise have employed to build on the literary success he achieved in 1929 with his novel All Else Is Folly, for which Ford Madox Ford wrote an enthusiastic preface. Acland was more complex and interesting than cursory accounts of his life suggest.

In Swahili Forum III Elena Bertoncini-Zubkova (1996) discussed some of the political criticisms, expressed in the form of literary motifs and imagery, that emerged in the works of the Tanzanian Swahili writer Euphrase Kezilahabi since 1978 onwards. She situates this emergent critique in the new political discoursive context where critical reviews of the Ujamaa policy could now be publicly voiced since President Nyerere himself admitted the failure of Ujamaa in his delivery Azimio la Arusha baada ya Miaka Kumi (The Arusha Declaration Ten Years Later, 1977). According to Bertoncini this admission `clear[ed] the way for critical literary works` of which Kezilahabi satirical play Kaputula la Marx (Marx`s Shorts, 1978) and his short story Mayai- Waziri wa maradhi (Eggs- Minister of Sickness, 1978) were among the first.