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THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANDARIN BEFORE PARIS, BEFORE LONDON, A YOUNG T.S. ELIOT DISCOVERED THE SALONS AND STREETS OF BOHEMIAN BOSTON IN THE EARLY 1910S. THE EFFECTS ARE STILL WITH US.

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20060101
Author:David Barber

WILL WE EVER make our peace with T.S. Eliot? For all the ink spilled on sequencing the DNA of "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets," the circumspect closing passage of the New York Times obituary that ran 40 years ago last January almost might have been written yesterday: "Although Eliot's influence began to wane in the last decade of his life, we are still too close to the light he shed to take his measure accurately.... If we judge a man by the vacancy that his absence from his time would have caused, T.S. Eliot was a giant."

And a giant no doubt he remains-though of late one more closely ...

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