On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> But one actual interest the queries might have is historical. Eliot's
> early criticism enjoyed a weird sort of hegemony for several decades,
> but as he himself nearly admits in some of his later essays, that
> criticism may have been merely flippant
The remark you quote sounds like something a very clever undergraduate poet would say. I speak from experience, having had two college roommates who were very clever poets, though obviously not of TSE's caliber.
Doug