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T.S. Eliot and Prejudice.
From: National Review
Date: 19890929
Author:Kirk, Russell
The earliest letter in this collection is written (June, T1898) from Gloucester by a ten-year-old boy to his father in St. Louis. Little Thomas Stearns Eliot mentions that a microscope and "a box of butterflies and a spider" had been broken in his trunk on the journey from Missouri to Massachusetts. There comes to mind Eliot's Ariel poem Animula": "The pain of living and the drug of dreams / Curl up the small soul in the window seat / Behind the Encyclopedia Britannica."
Sources and influences quite other than the Britannica would wake the imagination of T S. Eliot. This ...
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