Four Quartets
In Our Time: Culture
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The Age of Eliot
In the end, people called it the age of elliot. So along with a poetic reputation you also have his reputation as a critic and editor. Yates called him in 19 36, the most revolutionary man in poetry to have appeared in my lifetime. And part of what he is doing there is determining the climate of taste in which his own works will be read. He captures very well that sense of people almost being autimated by circumstance.
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