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"The great catastrophe to our letters"? T.S. Eliot, his influence, and its American critique.
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS presuppose a number of commonplaces: that T.S. Eliot is a poet of the first rank; that his influence on culture, the academy and criticism is, for better or worse, extensive; that he was an intellectual of integrity and a Christian of profound and, indeed, prophetic vision. What follows is an appraisal of some of the contradictory reasons why he has had the influence he has had and why his poetry has had less influence than is often acknowledged. On the way I point, here and there, to some of the poetry's deficiencies and to those critics, principally in America, who identified these.
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