By Gabrielle McIntire
T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf have been nearly distinctive contemporaries, readers and critics of every others' paintings, and acquaintances for over two decades. Their writings, although, are hardly ever paired. Modernism, reminiscence, and wish proposes that a few extraordinary correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf's poetic, fictional, serious, and autobiographical texts, relatively of their ordinary flip to the language of hope, sensuality, and the physique to render memory's methods. The ebook contains broad archival study on a few commonly unknown bawdy poetry by way of T. S. Eliot whereas delivering readings of significant paintings by way of either writers, together with The Waste Land, 'The Love music of J. Alfred Prufrock', Orlando, and To the Lighthouse. McIntire juxtaposes Eliot and Woolf with a number of significant modernist thinkers of reminiscence, together with Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, and Walter Benjamin, to provide compelling reconsiderations of the relation among textuality, remembrance, and the physique in modernist literature.
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Eliot’s disillusion with the scholarly life began in full force while he was in Germany, and his stock Germanic professorial figures function as yet another caricature in this series. Academia, he An unexpected beginning 27 suggests, is a dirty pursuit of the parenthetical, the excised, and the obscured. He writes a remarkable body of pornotropic poetry, and then laughs at us for considering it. desiring publicity: eliot as the kween of “golder’s [ sic ] green” In addition to the pornotropic character of these Bolo poems what is startling is that Eliot actively tried to get them published.
At the same time, Eliot mocks the phony earnestness that can attend academic labor. Eliot’s disillusion with the scholarly life began in full force while he was in Germany, and his stock Germanic professorial figures function as yet another caricature in this series. Academia, he An unexpected beginning 27 suggests, is a dirty pursuit of the parenthetical, the excised, and the obscured. He writes a remarkable body of pornotropic poetry, and then laughs at us for considering it. desiring publicity: eliot as the kween of “golder’s [ sic ] green” In addition to the pornotropic character of these Bolo poems what is startling is that Eliot actively tried to get them published.
31 The Wyndham Lewis correspondence from this time is difficult to date with absolute accuracy, but this letter appears during the same period in which Eliot had sent some Bolo poems to Lewis. Lewis, though, had deemed the Bolo verses unprintable. Through its awkward and abrupt textual juxtapositions, Lewis elides the distinction between his commentary on one of Eliot’s poems and his meeting with another “bugger,” John Rodker. Strikingly, Lewis remarks on a possible “jealousy” and on Rodker’s “manner,” performing a collision (separated only by commas) between personal competition, social presentation, and Eliot’s verse.