But Dame Philology is our Queen still, Quick to comfort Truth-loving hearts in their mother tongue (to report On the miracles She has wrought In the U.K., the O.E.D. Takes fourteen tomes): She suffers no evil, And a statesman still, so Her grace prevent, may keep a treaty, A poor commoner arrive at The Proper Name for his cat. -- W. H. Auden, "A Short Ode to a Philologist" Cheers, CR |
One obvious place to start would be the homage to Dante in Little Bidding, but perhaps that is a special case because it is such direct stylistic creation, outstanding though it be. A more appropriate example is MITC which uses the Anglo-Saxon and medieval rhythms of works like Ever man. That was quite deliberate as Eliot himself said. I believe Helen Gardner remarked on it more fully somewhere. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: OT (sort of) Philology. Sort of. From: Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] CC:
From: Peter Montgomery <[log in to unmask]>; To: <[log in to unmask]>; Subject: OT (sort of) Philology. Sort of. Sent: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 8:35:53 AM
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