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

[Mark Kohut]

I guess I remember, buried, closer to fact than opinion,-- my conflation--, remarks like these from Jonathon Rosen in the NYTimes in 2005:
" Bloom had somehow dislodged T. S. Eliot from his dominant position in the syllabus and replaced him with Wallace Stevens, and though there was a fine literary argument for this that had to do with Milton and his Romantic heirs, as opposed to the metaphysical poets favored by Eliot, I always suspected it had to do with the fact that Eliot was an anti-Semite."
 


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To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: NP..."Like a patient etherized upon a table".....


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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