Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 09:14:44 -0600 From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU> Subject: Re: PLC: Online Dark Ages >> It is sort of interesting that Eliot is often taken as a conservative poet, >> but all one has to do is listen carefully to his poetry deconstructing what >> it appears to lament the loss of to find the, in spite of himself, high >> romantic modernist, who would, I hope, roll over in his grave at being so >> classified. >> >> T.S, T.S. >> >> >Tsk tsk Geroge. I almost approve of what you said, for once. If you actually >see this, it makes up for a lot, provided you don't skewer me again on your >machete. > >pax? > >pat I do so yearn for your approval. And I have, oh so much to make up for. Nevertheless,I suspect you misunderstood me. Be that as it may, I can hardly take credit for the notion. It is the staple of the way Bloom succeeds in taking Eliot seriously rather than as, what he thought he was, a conservative (Anglo-Catholic, etc.), and what those without the breadth of Bloom's vision classified him as, a knee-jerk reactionary. I would endorse what Howard offers concerning trusting the poet, not the man. You offer peace, say Tsk tsk, and classify my weapon as a machete? Machetes are used to chop bush and cut cane. Straight razors, parking lot. One A.m. g --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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