All 4 Uses of
T.S. Eliot
in
Avant-garde and Kitsch
- I. ONE AND THE SAME civilization produces simultaneously two such different things as a poem by T. S. Eliot and a Tin Pan Alley song, or a painting by Braque and a Saturday Evening Post cover.†
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- Picasso's shows still draw crowds, and T. S. Eliot is taught in the universities; the dealers in modernist art are still in business, and the publishers still publish some "difficult" poetry.†
- And Eddie Guest and the Indian Love Lyrics are more poetic than T. S. Eliot and Shakespeare.†
- T. S. Eliot said something to the same effect in accounting for the shortcomings of English Romantic poetry.†
Definition:
U.S. born British poet and playwright remembered for such poems as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1888-1965)