NP but TSEliot and The Golden Bough again.

[Mark Kohut]

Gordonbnt: Why is April the 'cruellest month?' ( I have always found it agreeable)

 
Neil Astley, Guardian:
Because T.S. Eliot was reading J.G. Frazer's Golden Bough? Where JGF wrote that from the middle of April till the middle of June the land of Egypt is but half alive, waiting for the new Nile and how it was essential that primitive man should conceal the natural emotion under an air of profound dejection, and festivals of mourning for Adonis often took place in the spring?
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