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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20070922
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T.S. Eliot. Craig Raine. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]12.99. xxi + 202 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-530993-5. This short study, part of O.U.P. New York's Lives and Legacies series, argues that 'the Buried Life, the idea of a life not fully lived, is the central, animating idea of Eliot's poetry'. Yet Mr Raine shows that Eliot was never 'the dry stick of his self-caricature'. Eliot's poetry, which embodied his 'verbal gifts', was disliked by many in his lifetime and after his death 'unscrupulous and unscholarly' writers have labelled various charges at him. Yet he remains one ...

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