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Showing posts with label t. s. eliot. Show all posts
23 Oct 2024

It's Your Verses That We Want and Your Verses We Shall Have! Notes on Plagiarism, Piracy, and Found Poetry

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  'Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take,  and good poets make it into something better, or at le...
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3 Mar 2024

A Blast From the Past

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Wyndham Lewis photographed by George Charles Beresford in 1913 Front cover of the first edition of his Vorticist magazine Blast (1914)   ...
15 May 2022

Notes on Crosby and Crane: Pin-Up Boys of the Lost Generation

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Harry Crosby (1898-1929) and Hart Crane (1899-1932)   La plus volontaire mort c'est la plus belle.     I.    The initials HC mean diffe...
7 Feb 2021

Lobster Variations (I - IV)

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Nobuyuki Shimamura: Fantasy Lobster (2013) Hoki Museum Collection, Chiba, Japan    I.   Such is my fascination with lobsters at the moment ...
5 Feb 2018

In Memory of Joris-Karl Huysmans (and His Bejewelled Tortoise)

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Caricature of J-K Huysmans (1885) To be honest, I increasingly find that I have to be in a very particular frame of mind to read 19t...
27 Aug 2017

On the Joy of Metaphysical Conceit (With Reference to John Donne's 'The Flea')

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John Donne (1572-1631): The Flea   (First published posthumously in 1633)   Whilst it's true that I don't like conceite...
23 Mar 2017

Of Spiders and Flies (Notes on the Lawrence-Eliot Relationship)

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D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot  by David Levine The relationship between D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot was never going to be any...
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18 Apr 2016

April is the Cruelest Month

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Despite the horror of the night before, in the morning the birds still sang, the flowers still opened and the sun continued t...