Try not to be ridiculous. Surely you must have something to say
that is not just silly.
Nancy
>>> Peter Montgomery <
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4/15/2009 3:45 AM >>>
Being extremely aware, and being sensitive,
are not the same thing.
Do I detect some professional
envy?
P.
-----Original Message-----
From: T. S. Eliot
Discussion forum. on behalf of Nancy Gish
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or, what more could one want than a weekly literary talk show with an expert
as host?
** High Priority **
It would not be possible to be an
Eliot scholar and not be extremely aware of the Dante influence--or, of
course, that he was culturally Christian growing up. These facts are
unavoidable and no one questions their significance. It has nothing to
do with whether one prefers early or late poetry and it is not a matter of
skewing one's readings to pretend he wasn't. But as an undergraduate he
did consider becoming a Buddhist, and he was not actively engaged in being
Christian in the later sense.
On the first, in the new book on The
International Reception of T. S. Eliot there is a very fascinating article by
Stefan Maria Casella on Eliot in Italy for those who are interested in this
issue.
On the second, it is impossible to read Eliot at all without
seeing how the poetry changed after the
conversion.
Nancy
>>> Peter Montgomery
<
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If you're an
Eliot scholar who is sensitive to the Dante
influebce, and it was BIG in
Eliot even though it gets
mentioned precious little on this list, you may
be interested
in the preeminent US scholar, Robert Harrison, and
what he
has to say in this podcast.
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20090406_13924.mp3If
you want to hear more of Robert Harrison, you can go to his podcast
site:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/
It's
blurb is as follows:
"Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)" -
hosted by Professor Robert Harrison - is a weekly literary talk show that
ranges broadly on issues related to literature, ideas, and lived experience.
The show is typically a one-on-one conversation with a special guest about
select topics or authors about which he or she is especially entitled to an
opinion. Past guests have included Orhan Pamuk, Paul Ehrlich, Richard Rorty,
Shirley Hazzard, Andrei Linde, Rene Girard, Michel Serres, and many
others.
Robert Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian
Literature at Stanford University and is Chair of the Department of French and
Italian, where he has been since 1985. He was trained as a Dantista at Cornell
University where he received his Ph.D. in Romance Studies in 1984. His latest
book is Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, and his other publications
include The Body of Beatrice, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization, and The
Dominion of the Dead....."
