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Ambivalence all around.(T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide)(Book review)

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 20051222
Author:Stayer, Jayme

T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide

by David Chinitz

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 264 pages

T. S. Eliot had an audience problem. Which is one way of saying that sometimes T. S. Eliot thought he was making sense when his audiences thought otherwise. In an anecdote told by A. N. Wilson in the Spectator, Eliot was invited to Windsor Castle during the war for a poetry evening arranged by the Queen Mother, who was solicitous of her daughters' education. The somber poet showed up and began reading through The Waste Land to his baffled listeners. First the ...

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