It's been a very informative few months on the list but I think I've
picked up as much as I can. I would be very grateful for instructions on
how to unsubscribe.
Kind regards,
Craig
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From: T. S. Eliot Discussion forum. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Rickard A. Parker
Sent: 03 January 2006 22:59
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Subject: TSE and verse and prose
Some time recently for someone's post (prose poem "Hysteria," I guess)
I wanted to send in something about how Eliot enjoyed being praised on
how the verse in his plays was getting more and more like common
speech. I just blundered into a piece that is similar to what I
remembered reading (it must have been something by Robert Speaight.)
This was a footnote to an article written by Christopher S. Durer:
I well remember Robert Speaight saying after one of the monthly
poetry
readings at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in the early
1950s how very pleased Eliot was when friends told him that verse
in his plays was sounding progressively more and more like prose.
According to Speaight, Eliot would hoist himself up in his armchair,
draw in, tuck his feet under him, perform other bodily feats, and
beam
with delight.
Christopher S. Durer
T.S. Eliot's "What Dante Means to me" and
a Four-piece Suit: A Reminiscence and Some Thoughts
Newsletter of the T.S. Eliot Society
Spring 2001 - #43
Regards,
Rick Parker
P.S. - From a prior list exchange we discovered that the fourth piece
of that suit was "reserve." "Four-piece suit" appears to be a fairly
common expression in the post-radio but pre-television days.
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