Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire book is plagued by a frustrating discrepancy between minute detail and lack of any detail at all. While Matthews describes at length the life of Eliot's friend (and possibly fiancee) Emily Hale with a series of frequently fatuous anecdotes, we learn almost nothing about the influence of Pound upon Eliot's work. Any reasons for this are unclear, since the author was refused access to any really significant information on Emily Hale (the Emily Hale papers) while he was free to study all the Pound documents. It's just too speculative--so many questions are left unanswered that...
...thrive. With them swells the horde of over one thousand books (and counting) on Eliot--biographies, criticism, memoirs, recollections, analyses. T.S. Matthews's Great Tom is one more goose from this gaggle, peddling no easy answers to the Eliot enigma. Its value lies in its subject: As Ezra Pound said, "The more we know of Eliot, the better...
...Matthews, former managing editor of Time, has explored the few available sources of information on T.S. Eliot, including Professor John H. Finely '25 and the extensive Eliot-Pound correspondence. Matthews examines certain major themes in Eliot's life: his overly strict, God-fearing, asexual upbringing, a disastrous first marriage which drove him for years into a devastating personal waste land, the gnawing sense of guilt which pervades his post-1922 poetry and plays, his conversion from Unitarianism to Anglo-Catholicism, and the emotional rejuvenation of his second marriage...
...story of Ezra Pound's great hearted help to Eliot in the early London years is familiar, especially since the recent discovery of Eliot's original Waste Land manuscript with Pound's extensive excisions and imperious editorial notes. In dealing with it, Matthews tends to overvalue many of the lines Pound cut and to assume that if Pound had failed him, Eliot would never have got round to cutting them himself...
...hikes of up to 30%, charging their demands are inflationary. "Inflation," declared Heath, "is the most insidious enemy a nation can face." He depicts the miners -and the Labor Party with which they are most closely allied-as controlled by militant leftists. A typical Tory television spot shows pound notes being flung at a miner's helmet. Then Heath appears, saying he has no quarrel with the unions, only with "extremists" who seek to bring down the elected government...