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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.†

Definitions:

(1) (T.S. Eliot)
U.S. born British poet and playwright remembered for such poems as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1888-1965)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)