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... Eliot . Eliot was experimenting with monologue very early on . ' The Death of St Narcissus ' , written in 1912 , looks like monologue , and might have been , too , but for the need to kill the protagonist off in the last stanza ...
... Eliot . Eliot was experimenting with monologue very early on . ' The Death of St Narcissus ' , written in 1912 , looks like monologue , and might have been , too , but for the need to kill the protagonist off in the last stanza ...
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... Eliot had predecessors , and at least one of them very distinguished indeed ; so that what has been termed ' modernity ' in his work should rather be regarded as the development of a decisively American tradition . Who , long before Eliot ...
... Eliot had predecessors , and at least one of them very distinguished indeed ; so that what has been termed ' modernity ' in his work should rather be regarded as the development of a decisively American tradition . Who , long before Eliot ...
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... Eliot is without doubt the elegy on the death of President Lincoln ( 1865-6 ) . To anatomise this would be to go into all of Eliot's poems in needless detail . But it is legitimate to point out two or three of the more striking ...
... Eliot is without doubt the elegy on the death of President Lincoln ( 1865-6 ) . To anatomise this would be to go into all of Eliot's poems in needless detail . But it is legitimate to point out two or three of the more striking ...
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Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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