"Several centers": T. S. Eliot's wartime agenda of cultural unity and diversity.(Critical essay)

Yeats Eliot Review | June 22, 2005| | Copyright

In his reflections on poetry's social significance in times of conflict, Seamus Heaney quotes a low-point in T. S. Eliot's wartime morale--a letter written to E. Martin Brown in October, 1942:

In the midst of what is going on now, It is bard, when yon sit down at a desk, to feel confident that morning after morning spent fiddling with words and rhythms is justified activity[...]. And on the other hand, external or public activity is more of a drug than is this solitary toil which often seems so pointless. (1)

It is comforting, if incongruous, to catch the ...

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