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  1. 1860-1913. English writer, who called himself
  2. Baron Corvo. A Roman Catholic convert,
  3. frustrated in his desire to enter the
  4. priesthood, he wrote the novel Hadrian VII
  5. 1904, in which the character of the title
  6. rose from being a poor writer to become pope.
  7. In Desire and Pursuit of the Whole 1934 he
  8. wrote about his homosexual fantasies and
  9. friends, earning the poet Auden's description
  10. of him as `a master of vituperation'.
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