It's hard to believe that cr really exists. No living man wrote such stuff.

I've read a rather large amount of both 'professional' and 'amateur' (e.g.
students) criticism over the last 63 years and I NEVER encountered the least
suggestion in even the most arrogant and juvenile of such criticism that it
was "presumptuous" to write a negative comment on _any_ writer (including
Homer, Dante, & Shakespeare). "Even Homer nods" is echoed over and over
again.

I'm serious: I doubt that cr could actually exist.

Carrol
> -----Original Message-----
> From: T. S. Eliot Discussion forum. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Nancy Gish
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:43 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: This verse smells because..
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> This is outrageous and offensive. The list is not here for you to spread
your
> attitudes but for everyone interested in Eliot to say what they like.
Shame on
> you.
>
> So Eliot wrote a bad poem at 17--so did many poets. It's an interesting
insight
> into his development.
>
> The idea that any critique is "presumption" is the greatest presumption
> possible. Who are you to judge that?
> Nancy
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> >>> Chokh Raj 02/19/13 9:21 AM >>>
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> They will 'forgive' TSE for writing that poem!
> Damn it, what obdurate presumption!
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> CR
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> Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:53
> AM:
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> Mind the satraps, that is, guardians of the realm.
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> "out of good still to find means of evil"
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> "To do ought good never will be our task, / But ever to do ill our sole
delight"
>
> CR
>
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> Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:58
> AM:
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> satraps, guardians of the realm !!!
>
>
> CR
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> From: P <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:45 AM
> Subject: This verse smells because..
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>
> It was worked up by a backwards poet who wrote inverse.
>
> No apologies!
> Peter.
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