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AFTER reading this week's ESSAY, one of TIME'S editors abruptly abandoned his intention of having another try at Plato's Dialogues on his summer vacation, decided instead to take along The Cuckoo Line Affair, the love poems of John Donne, and Walbaum's Life...
"To quote President Johnson again, "safely and peace" are not certainly "in the retreat or in weakness." Perhaps they exist in the admission of the major powers that each nation must choose by itself its own destiny and the form of its government, whatever that form may be. This seems...
Less visibly than his poems or plays, Eliot's criticism transformed the taste of his generation. Almost singlehanded Eliot launched such shifts in taste as the revival of John Donne and the turning away from Milton. Even today and even when it is disputed, Eliot's critical judgment...
Interesting as he was as a playwright, influential as he was as a critic, yet it is his poetry, finally, that will survive. In five lines of the poem Whispers of Immortality he really said more about Donne than in all of his famous essay on the metaphysical poets:
Long before Poet T. S. Eliot expounded his theory of the "auditory imagination," Pioneer Adman Earnest Elmo Calkins used pocket poetry to make "Phoebe Snow" glamorize passenger service on the coal-burning Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Slogans nearly always overload the language and often debase it ("cof-fee-er coffee...