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...Paradise Lost--has no one model, but uses and subsumes many. Berryman had no model for the Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Harte Crane's The Bridge ("a set of lyrics") was out; Edward Arlington Robinson and Robert Browning were uncongenial ("I admire them, but I dislike them"). Eliot's Prufrock and Waste Land are disjunctive and impressionistic where Berryman's effort is continuous and expressionistic...
...Prufrock & The Waste Land, Selected
...last. This anthology is one long, heavy, awkwardly put-together Curiosity. Admittedly, reading the lyrics of young T.S. Eliot '10--already slightly bored, effete, with allusions to classical figures and scenes--is a "critic's delight," as Culler claims. The careful reader will find parallels with "Prufrock" in "Spleen," written when Eliot...
LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). You have to get up early in the morning to catch a show with a name like "Te Deum for J. Alfred Prufrock"-a dramatic reading commemorating T. S. Eliot's death a year...
...most recent work, is the giveaway, for it dwells entirely on the only generalizable theme in After the Fall, the guilt of genocide. And even Vichy is too consciously a "message play," resting too much on ideas and not enough on people. Miller's people cannot, unlike J. Alfred Prufrock or Moses E. Herzog, asks the big questions and yet stay in the skins their creators gave them. When Charley, in Death of a Salesman, tries to make Willy Loman the embodiment of the tragic salesman, he sounds phony. And when Quentin speaks of all men's guilt...