Inheriting Eliot. From: The American Poetry Review | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: RECTOR, LIAM | COPYRIGHT 2001 World Poetry, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Where is the work of T. S. Eliot these days? Is his work being taken up by the generations of poets coming up? And, moreover, what's the situation for inheriting Eliot among his grandchildren and his latter-day great-grandchildren?

Once upon a time there no doubt was what Delmore Schwartz called the literary dictatorship of T. S. Eliot, a dictatorship whose orthodoxies entranced, captivated, defined, refined, and terrified his children. My sense now is that the Eliot jug...

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