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T.S. Eliot's etherized patient.(Critical Essay)

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 20041222
Author:Cuda, Anthony

       [T]hese things may seem to you delusions, or truisms; but for me 
       they are dark truths, and the power to put them into even such 
       words as these has been given me by an ether dream. 
       --"manuscript by a friend in England" qtd. in William James (309)

When T. S. Eliot wrote from his sickbed to his friend (and printer of the Criterion) Richard Cobden-Sanderson in September 1925, it was amid some of his most trying days since his arrival in London 10 years before. Since July he had been anxiously preparing for his upcoming Clark Lectures at Trinity College, ...

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