 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - English poetry - 1924 - 52 pages
...should be interested in philosophy, or in any other subject. We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing... | |
 | Leonard Unger - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 50 pages
...Eliot's poetry, such as the following familiar passage: "We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing... | |
 | Maria Mootry, Gary Smith - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 300 pages
...should be interested in philosophy, or in any other subject. We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing... | |
 | Cleo McNelly Kearns - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 312 pages
...should be interested in philosophy, or in any other subject. We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing... | |
 | Martin Scofield - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 280 pages
...importance of both the modern French school and the Metaphysical poets for Eliot: It appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing... | |
 | Margaret Bridges - Combination (Linguistics) - 1990 - 244 pages
...been now? — at least since TS Eliot proclaimed in his 1921 essay on "The Metaphysical Poets" that "poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult" and that "the poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order... | |
 | Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 356 pages
...associated with poetic difficulty and with the idea, as Eliot puts it, "that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult" (SE, K)i7-52, 248). If the common reader finds the modern poet hard to understand, the poet, in the... | |
 | Dermot McCarthy - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 344 pages
...his essay, "The Metaphysical Poets" (1921), Eliot wrote: "We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing... | |
 | Jan Gorak - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 330 pages
...which Said sees behind the eminence of Eliot. On the contrary, like Eliot himself, Kermode accepts that 'poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult' '.' These difficulties reflect the Luciferian ambitions of modern artists described in Romantic Image.... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 274 pages
...of finding the verbal equivalent for states of mind and feeling." "It appears likely," he adds, that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this . . . must produce various and... | |
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We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing upon a refined sensibility, must produce... 
