T.S. Eliot's essay, much like a lot of his stuff, is a daunting thing to encounter at first. That's why is I think Fresh does a really nice job isolating one of its main points:
Eliot describes in this case how poems as they are related to other poems and how that relation essentially makes or breaks them. Writing like many things in life comes from a long line of antecessors who have affected the way we write even today.
Regarding the above photo: I've always been fascinated with Eliot's hair. What kind of product does he use to get that effect?
Once, during a particular intensive week or so of reading Eliot, I had a dream in which Eliot and Ezra Pound spend a great deal of time making fun of my hair. It was weird.
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