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20 Jun 2018 Conversations with Tyler Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond
“When I read Eliot next to the American modernists whom I prefer — I prefer Marianne Moore, I prefer William Carlos Williams, I prefer Hart Crane, I prefer Edna St.”
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- Elisa New
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- 20 Jun 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…It bores me a bit. I loved it as a teenager, but when I try to read it again, I’m not that interested. You know what I think, Tyler? I think we didn’t go through World War I so we can’t say. I do understand the T. S. Eliot that incubated in Cambridge in 1913 because Cambridge in 2018 isn’t that different. It’s really the same world. I think “The Waste Land” is the poet of a pretty privileged American who went to Europe and was really hoping that European civilization would hold together, and instead it was blowing itself to smithereens. When I read Eliot next to the American modernists whom I prefer — I prefer Marianne Moore, I prefer William Carlos Williams, I prefer Hart Crane, I prefer Edna St. Vincent Millay — I think, “Well, they didn’t really do World War I, either.” Now, Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in literature, as you know. Do you consider him a poet?…
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