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The Wasteland is many things, but it is not adolescent, even if we all memorized it early, it is the poem that gave us that permission and haunted us like a surreralism. To say it is adolescent is to say Schoenberg is infantile or Stravinsky is melodramatic, or Balanchine and Picasso are inspissated.I doubt this. Eliot and Pound havew the best ears of thew century and they are not pubescent. Cathay, for example, the best poems of the language.I believe this more than belief itself. I accept puyblic debate. The Wasteland is not a poem of youth. It is a prahyer without hope, gathering towards the Quartets.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:56:36 +0000

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