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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:32:46 -0800, Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Just one instance of the alacrity, the�sensitivity and the pace with which Eliot's sensibility responded to Laforgue's influence. Here's Lyndall Gordon's insightful account:� p. 42 �"At once, on discovering Symons, Eliot ordered three volumes of Laforgue from France. The Oeuvres completes must have arrived in the spring of 1909, certainly in time for Eliot to read them over the summer, and late in the autumn he began to pour out new poems..."� But how did the poems differ from what they would have been if Eliot didn't know French and only had read Laforgue in translation? Regards, Rick Parker