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...characterized by grace, calmson, and an unqualified technical mastery. The poem has dramatic setting--an evening in the city--and it keeps to it. Mr. Dawson also uses splashes of other poets with gay sensitivity. Echoes of Hart Crane's gulls and city are there, for example; Eliot's "Prufrock" turns...
...Prufrock...
Doubtless, scores of T. S. Eliot devotees, not to mention old T.S. himself, have taken offense at the unenviable status accorded him by your inapplicable excerpt from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. "I grow old . . . I grow old . . ." implies that our hero, like Prufrock, has aged into aimless ineffectivity, a frustrated prisoner of existence. All such inferences are belied by your magazine, which shows Eliot, scantily clad, in unmistakably blissful contentment, visibly impervious to his public, and matrimonially endowed with a woman less than half...
...busy with nightly gin rummy, breezed through novels from the hotel library, daily ventured out in the midday sun. As he basked contentedly with his 34-year-old ex-secretary, the poet, at 72, looked not a little like the hero of his 1917 Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...
That dear good man, with Prufrock...