This week's Final Word comes from the work of an author and poet who was the first English writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature in 1907:
"He crossed his hands on his lap and smiled, as a man may who has won salvation for himself and his beloved."
The winner of last week's competition, who correctly identified Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe , is Judith Purver of Manchester.
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