Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - a broken man writing dull English.
Source: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Ch. 1
-- Vladimir Nabokov, (Apr 23 1899-1977), Russian-U. S. novelist; He was the foremost of the post-1917 immigrant authors; his works include Lolita, 1955.