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Reading the Wreckage: De-Encrypting Eliot's Aesthetics of Empire.(20th-century poet T.S. Eliot)

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 19970322
Author:Douglass Paul

Issues concerning T.S. Eliot's political beliefs and his poetry, particularly "The Waste Land," are examined. Topics include Eliot's assimilation into an aristocratic European culture, his poetic style, his reactionary politics, and the mythological foundation of "The Waste Land."

Many of the works of the Ancients have become fragments; many works of the Moderns are so in their inception.

- Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum, Fragment 24

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older

The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated

Of dead and living. Not the ...

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