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Tag Archives: T.S. Eliot
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.” — WWI poet Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen, one of the best “war poets” of World War I, was born on this day in 1893. He was killed in battle in 1918, just seven days before the Armistice. He was 25 years old. His poetry was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, On This Day, writers
Tagged Dylan Thomas, England, Harold Bloom, poetry, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, war, WWI
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“[My function] in Scotland during the past twenty to thirty years [is] that of the cat-fish that vitalizes the other torpid denizens of the aquarium.” –Hugh MacDiarmid
The function, as it seems to me, O’ Poetry is to bring to be At lang, lang last that unity … — Hugh MacDiarmid, “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” It’s his birthday today. He was born on August … Continue reading
Posted in Books, James Joyce, On This Day, writers
Tagged Finnegans Wake, Hugh MacDiarmid, Michael Schmidt, poetry, Scotland, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot
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Review: Cats (2019)
I picked the short straw in being assigned to review Cats … or at least that was how I thought initially. But … I enjoyed Cats. To quote The Irishman, it is what it is. My review at Ebert. This … Continue reading
The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘Learning from Eliot,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. My father … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Finders Keepers, Ireland, poetry, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot
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Midnight in Paris Re-Release: A Nostalgia For a Life He Had Never Lived
This article originally appeared on Capital New York. Midnight in Paris opened in May. So far, it has made over $50 million in the United States alone, making it Woody Allen’s biggest box office success. Sony Pictures has decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged comedy, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marion Cotillard, Owen Wilson, T.S. Eliot, Woody Allen, Zelda Fitzgerald
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“Ash Wednesday”, by T.S. Eliot
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should … Continue reading
“combing the white hair of the waves blown back”
Member my post about plagiarism? Here is what the waves looked like on that windy wild day, and tell me if it’s not the absolute perfect image for what was going on!!
Plagiarizing Eliot
I knew that the image of the wind blowing back the waves’ foam like horses’ manes was taken from somewhere – but it was such an a propos image – there really is no other way to say it or … Continue reading
Some Island snapshots
— “I cannot imagine how a casual reference to Suetonius and Petronius Arbiter can be construed into evidence of a desire to impress by an assumption of superior knowledge. I should fancy that the most ordinary of scholars is perfectly … Continue reading
