Carrol Cox wrote:
> Pound's suggestions were all towards bringing out that
> buried form. Eliot could see what had happened, but I'm not convinced he
> wholly understood it himself.
I think it's rather more doubtful that Pound understood it.
> It was Eliot who produced the lines
> including those superb opening lines, but he remained nearly as puzzled
> as the rest of us at just precisely what he had done.
>
He produced superb lines but didn't know what he'd done. Talk about
dissociation! This is at best unlikely.
Ken A
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