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Who said, "it is healthier to read Tit-Bits than Tennyson's Idylls of the King" ?
Answer: D
The key attributes the remark to J.M. Synge.
The line sets the lively popular weekly Tit-Bits against the genteel Victorian Idylls of the King, and it matches Synge's view that poetry should be rooted in ordinary, vigorous life, not in refined literary convention. A 1961 Spectator piece on Tennyson is the only source I found that gives the remark to Synge; I could not trace the original wording, so the key is kept on that evidence.
I found nothing linking George Orwell or Kingsley Amis to this remark, and 'Samuel Backett' is the printed spelling of Beckett's name, so those options are not supported by anything I could find.
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