467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
The History of Literature
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Poems by Pound
Elliot was pulled into a kind of an avant-garde rumble wagon by Pound and it was not something that I would say he expected or was looking for although to the end of his life he never stopped crediting Pound for basically saving his life. Slamad the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock became the title of his first poetry publication as a booker book in 1917 Prufrock and other observations. We hop into Duluth slide ride, slide the Michigan stomp, rump,. pump the Michigan jump, pump the Michigan ride. That love in right. Everybody likes theMichigan ride. Every moment.
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