Influences: Virgil, Dante, Milton, Ovid, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, James Frazer, Ezra Pound, among other writers were influential to Eliot's writings. Although not writer, he "admired Charlie Chaplin and wanted "as large and miscellaneous an audience as possible." (1419)
Influenced: Ezra Pound
Genres: Eliot wrote poetry and verse plays.
Cultural Influence: "Eliot was thus a product of that New England-based ‘genteel tradition' that shaped the nation's cultural life after the Civil War." (1418)
Style: "His persuasive style, a mixture of advocacy and judiciousness, effectively counter pointed Pound's aggressiveness, confrontational approach." (1418). His style was defined as having "high modernism".
Audience: He tried to make his writings accessible to everyone, despite their cultural surroundings. "However elitist his pronouncements, however hostile to modernity he claimed to be, Eliot actually drew very heavily upon popular forms and longed to have a wide cultural audience. " (1419)
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Eliot is a good read.
Keep up the good work, my friendly maven.
Thanks for posting.
~mo-zy
Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Side Are You On?"
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row
TSE was my late brother's favorite poet, and I always wanted to know more about him beyond the usual bio. You have provided exactly what I was looking for, Sigriet.....Thanks !!