Eliot in Perspective: A SymposiumGraham Martin |
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... Laforgue is to be original to the point of genius.'14 Jules Laforgue , who died in 1887 at the age of twenty - seven , had in himself the makings of a great poet.15 With his classical education , his excellent knowledge of the English ...
... Laforgue is to be original to the point of genius.'14 Jules Laforgue , who died in 1887 at the age of twenty - seven , had in himself the makings of a great poet.15 With his classical education , his excellent knowledge of the English ...
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... Laforgue's line which means little more than ' will have put years on me ' . Where Eliot writes nostalgically of the eyes and arms , Laforgue has , more mischiev- ously , Et suivez - les décolletées Des épaules , comme , aussitôt ...
... Laforgue's line which means little more than ' will have put years on me ' . Where Eliot writes nostalgically of the eyes and arms , Laforgue has , more mischiev- ously , Et suivez - les décolletées Des épaules , comme , aussitôt ...
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... Laforgue's fine last two lines into the equally moving ' I shall sit here , serving tea to friends ' . In Eliot the ... Laforgue never achieved Eliot's formidable counterpoint between speech and silence ; but nor was he ever so detached ...
... Laforgue's fine last two lines into the equally moving ' I shall sit here , serving tea to friends ' . In Eliot the ... Laforgue never achieved Eliot's formidable counterpoint between speech and silence ; but nor was he ever so detached ...
Contents
F W BATESON The Poetry of Learning | 31 |
FRANCIS SCARFE Eliot and Nineteenthcentury | 45 |
a distinction | 62 |
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