467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
The History of Literature
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Collage and Ulysses and the Wasteland
Elliot was someone who really had a stake in a much broader and holistic vision of all of the arts across all time. He did not want to be a Bohemian which seemed very 19th century. That's something that you get more in other people like his good friend, Winnie Lewis, or Pound for that matter. In both Stravinsky and Elliot these were not young Turks who were trying to shake things up. They had arrived at a moment in the expression of their own personalities,. Their obsessions, their sense of adventure to kind of take a step in their own artThat's where I think those watershed moments come into play is when someone just has the wherewithal to
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