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"Then You Wink the Other Eye": T. S. Eliot and the Music Hall.
From: ANQ
Date: 19980922
Author:KNOWLES, SEBASTIAN D. G.
Poet T.S. Eliot was influenced by music hall performers of his time in creating the characters and ideas of his poetry. Music hall singer Marie Lloyd provided the model for the allusions and silences in Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land,' and Eliot named a character in another poem for her. A multilingual music hall performer named Little Tich was 'The Waste Land' in miniature, arguing about philosophy and performing feats of mathematics.
"[P]eople get clever and say it means all sorts of things. I can't help that, can I?"
--Marie Lloyd
In his first "London Letter," published in the ...
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