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Hold the politics; Modern poets; T.S. Eliot.(Books and Arts)(Review)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20010324
Author:Donoghue, Denis

WORDS ALONE: THE POET T.S. ELIOT.

T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965) is proving difficult to dislodge. Although it is common to regard him as politically and ideologically objectionable (he was, after all, a Dead White Male even while he lived), and despite attacks on him for his supposed anti-semitism, his reputation as a poet remains essentially intact. Indeed, in this reviewer's experience a genuine love for Eliot's verse is an international phenomenon second only to the love for Shakespeare. When a group of students at the University of Baghdad was recently asked whom they considered ...

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