NP..."Like a patient etherized upon a table".....

[Alex Colter]

Bloom considers Eliot among the foremost American Poets of the 20th
Century. However Dr. Bloom began his career as a student of Northrop Frye
and a fierce defender of the Romantics, in stark contrast to Mr. Eliot's
'New Criticism'. Bloom insists, and grows more zealous with age, on the
influence of Whitman upon the young poet, something Mr. Eliot seems to have
done his best to resist, even ironically quoting Whitman here and there.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> PaulVermeersch Somehow, the study of English literature became the study
> of French philosophy without anyone calling bullshit.
>
> I don't know who this tweeter is, but if you have, as I have, refurbished
> some of your English Lit background with more immersion
> in T. S. Eliot (and pal Ezra)'s profound influence on modernism in
> literature---T.S. with a PhD in Bergson and a formative
> self-education in the French Symbolists---we see it in TRP and WG (I
> think) and John Ashbery and
> many others, then this remark can strike one.
>
> No wonder Bloom disses T.S. and praises Emerson to the heavens,
> transcendentally.
>
>
>
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