Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renaissance, Rumor and Reflection, etc.) are comparatively second-drawer Berenson, but they will live. They reveal an elaborate, prickly mind, of melancholy cast. Berenson's chief object was to lose himself in what he saw and liked. Brought up on Walter Pater and inspired by Charles Eliot Norton at Harvard, he practiced and preached self-immolation on the altar of beauty...
Primacy of the Image. The volume suggests why critics rank him with such movers and shapers of modern verse as Rilke, Valéry, Eliot and Yeats. There is a family resemblance linking Pasternak to these Western poets, but it is that of a distant cousin, not a brother. An occasional image carries the haunting echo of kinship. For example, one poem of Pasternak's begins...
...Eliot's memorable "when the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherised upon a table." But such instances of point-to-point similarity are rare. A Westerner can perhaps best understand Boris Pasternak's revolutionary impact on Russian verse within the historic Russian context...
...Eliot's Proposal...
Back as far as 1883, President Eliot had proposed to the Board of Overseers that the Harvard curriculum should be modified to let a student complete his college work in three years. For twenty-five consecutive years he put the proposal before the Board, and each time it was rejected...