Eliot on the Poetry of His Contemporaries
Time Present The Newsletter of the T. S. Eliot Society Number 85 Spring 2015 CONTENTS Eliot on the Poetry of His Contemporaries Essays: Eliot on the Poetry of His By Marjorie Perloff Contemporaries by Marjorie Perloff 1 Today, when the reviewing of new books of poetry is often little more than expanded blurb writing, singling out this or that volume from the Annie Dunn: An Eliot Society hundreds of slim collections that pour out from the small presses, it is the Pilgrimage greatest pleasure to read the hitherto uncollected book reviews by the young by Ronald Schuchard 2 T. S. Eliot, now available in Volume 1 of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard. Written Eliot Society Call for Papers 3 primarily for The Egoist, but also for such other journals as The New Statesman, Reviews these reviews and reflections on contemporary poetry present Eliot at his brilliant, learned, funny, and iconoclastic best. Poetry and Its Others: News, Consider Eliot’s reaction, in a 1918 omnibus review for , to a Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of The Egoist Genres, by Jahan Ramazani lavishly produced poetry book by E. F. A. Geach and D. E. A. Wallace coyly Reviewed by T. Austin Graham 7 titled –Esques: The authors of –Esques trickle down a fine broad page in a pantoum, a Bequest from Eliot’s Library to roundel, a villanelle, occasionally pagan, mode of thirty years ago: Magdalene College, Cambridge Why then, O foolish Christ, Reviewed by M. E. J. Hughes 8 Didst thou keep tryst Out of Character: Modernism, With maudlin harlots wan Vitalism, Psychic Life, by Omri With glad things gone? Moses To which the obvious answer is, Why did you? Young poets ought to Reviewed by Corey Latta 12 be cheaply printed; such sumptuous pages deceive many innocent critics.
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