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Eliot's New Life.
The Economist (US)
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October 1, 1988
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ELIOT'S NEW LIFE. By Lyndall Gordon. Oxford University Press; 356 pages; 15.00 [pounds]. Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $20.00
IT WAS Ezra Pound who nicknamed T.S. Eliot "Possum", to indicate that his fellow-expatriate's punctiliously formal manner cloaked the most radically innovative poet of his time. A possum-like formality marked Eliot's hugely influential criticism as well. After the first world war he overturned the nineteenth century's view of poetry as sentimental self-expression, substituting a rigorous classical ideal of intellect, tradition and impersonality. ...
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