Granting that all men are bastards, and man poets are the...

Granting that all men are bastards, and man poets are the worst bastards of them all, and that bad man bastard poets can never be great ones, the crimes of T. S. Eliot seem comparatively rather mild. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/07/opinions/t-s-eliot-letters-and-bad-male-poets-zakaria/index.html #poetry #literature #politics #minds

May T.S. Eliot letters send an overdue #MeToo message

The release of over 1,000 T. S. Eliot letters by Princeton's library last week set the literary world abuzz. In Eliot's testy pre-prepared statement about Emily Hale and the letters he wrote to her, Rafia Zakaria diagnoses a toxic trend among 20th century male poets like Eliot, Robert Lowell and Ted...

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