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Michelle Alexis Taylor Discusses T.S. Eliot’s “Boring” Letters
"While no selection principle is explained in the printed volumes or online, it is evident that the online letters are considerably less juicy than the ones in print: if the printed letters have occasional grand canyons opening up new perspectives on Eliot, the online letters are more like endless, rolling dunes of sandy sentences, with just the occasional mirage of personality, sometimes too fantastic to be real."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Christine De Luca on Jidi Majia’s “The Enduring One”
"Reading the poem I was given, ‘The Enduring One’, I sensed a flavour of the Old Testament books of Genesis and Proverbs, of Norse sagas, of the Finnish Origin stories as told in the Kalevala. There was the same sensual lyricism, the fabulous nature of the tales and the sheer urgency of telling. Also the sense of long kinship, the importance of genealogy and the need to remember, especially heroic forebears." |
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