Eliot's New Life.

National Review | November 7, 1988| | Copyright

IN ACCOUNTING for Charles Baudelaire's "constant vituperations of the female," T. S. Eliot once observed that the French poet "arrived at the perception that a woman must be to some extent a symbol; he did not arrive at the point of harmonizing his experience with his ideal needs." Whether any male artist of great imagination can find a real woman capable of fulfilling his ideal is a question for NOW. But it goes without saying that Eliot, like Baudelaire, also transfigured the female for symbolic purposes. Grishkin, the perfumed and rapacious sexual animal of "Whispers ...

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