T.S. Eliot's Bleistein Poems: Uses of Literary Allusion in Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar and DirgePatricia Sloane's study is a detailed reassessment of two of the poet's most provocative works that examines Eliot's allusions and larger purpose. In this close reading of the two poems in which Bleistein appears, Sloane shows that Burbank is an intricate derivation of Dante's Inferno. |
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Page 77
... Ezra Pound hopefully conjectured that artists might rise above the ape - like ( and swine - like ) level of other men ( see page 197 ) . Ezra was upstaged , in this case , by one of the more fa- mous photographs of the twentieth century ...
... Ezra Pound hopefully conjectured that artists might rise above the ape - like ( and swine - like ) level of other men ( see page 197 ) . Ezra was upstaged , in this case , by one of the more fa- mous photographs of the twentieth century ...
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... Ezra ( 1090-1164 ) , which Browning read in the Vatican library ( Browning's Poetry 246 ) .13 In an irony , Rabbi Ben Ezra dates from three years after the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning , denied the op- portunity to grow old along ...
... Ezra ( 1090-1164 ) , which Browning read in the Vatican library ( Browning's Poetry 246 ) .13 In an irony , Rabbi Ben Ezra dates from three years after the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning , denied the op- portunity to grow old along ...
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... Ezra Pound , however , pro- nounces The Aspern Papers " inferior " ( Literary Essays 320 ) and finds that " for sheer dreariness , one reads Henry James " ( Spirit of Romance 136 ) . Again , Eliot draws in each of these " sources " by ...
... Ezra Pound , however , pro- nounces The Aspern Papers " inferior " ( Literary Essays 320 ) and finds that " for sheer dreariness , one reads Henry James " ( Spirit of Romance 136 ) . Again , Eliot draws in each of these " sources " by ...
Contents
FOREWORD BY SHYAMAL BAGCHEE | 9 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 17 |
MONEY IN FURS MONEY IN NONFERROUS METALS I | 55 |
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