“... that he was one of the handful of highbrows. He is careful to record not only a joke made by T.S. Eliot in allusion to a maxim by La Rochefoucauld but also the fact that he, Hinks, shared it, whereas an ‘egregious’ American professor failed to see the point. In Rome he sits near Jean-Paul Sartre at dinner and we are made to feel that the Frenchman was ...”

“... fear. They will not succumb; they will not be blackmailed.’ Syriza have an almost impossible task. Theirs is not the voice of extreme left ‘madness’, but of reason speaking out against the madness of market ideology. In their readiness to take over, they have banished the left’s fear of taking power; they have the courage to clear up the mess ...”

“... to change colour, according to the time of night or day.’ Hardly more than a ghost herself, her task is to exorcise the spirit of a drowned woman haunting her husband Theron. The Cerne Abbas giant, who counsels her, has the tones of T.S. Eliot: ‘I only know it is from you the knowledge will come.’ Since the ghost is ...”

“... aberrations from their decorous poetic ideals, such as that notorious radical T.S. Eliot. Spark had a bust-up with them and remained throughout her life a world-beating buster-upper.Her relationship with Stanford began in the early 1950s and together they wrote several critical books. She also wrote poems (much less good than the novels) and ...”

“... more than native place. Robert Frost was a Californian who entrenched himself in New England. T.S. Eliot, for all his Russell Square papistry, came from St Louis. These poets grew to be associated with the territories they adopted and which adopted them. The idea that a place or community might actually speak through the poet, or co-produce the poetry, may be ...”

“... Writing in his best haughty-provocative manner, T.S. Eliot described Coleridge as ‘one of those unhappy persons … of whom one might say that if they had not been poets, they might have made something of their lives, might even have had a career’. Although the syntax allows a little ambiguity about whether the unhappiness is independent of, or consequent on, being a poet, the obvious reading suggests a somewhat laboured sarcasm about the way the propensity for writing poetry can blight the exercise of other talents, talents that might have led to success in more orthodox careers ...”

“... I can’t be the only reader whose appreciation of Victorian verse was inhibited by Yeats, Eliot, Pound and Leavis. In ‘The Trembling of the Veil’, Yeats made an opportunistic distinction between two traditions in 19th-century English poetry. In the first, most poets aligned themselves with ‘some propaganda or traditional doctrine to give ...”

“... Jewish Cockney actress Miriam Rooth claims to be in the same style as ‘that woman’, and George Eliot’s Gwendolen Harleth foolishly thinks of herself as destined for stardom because she is more beautiful than the ‘thin Jewess’. Rachel not only dominated the Paris stage but performed in London, St Petersburg and New York; she may have been the first ...”

“... no SF title, as I recall, has even been shortlisted for Martyn Goff’s real thing. In 1940, T.S. Eliot struck the recurrent establishment note when he labelled Wells a ‘popular entertainer’.(Dickens was stigmatised with the same term by F.R. Leavis in The Great Tradition.) Patrick Parrinder has been opposing such anti-Wellsian prejudice for the best part ...”

“... of antisemitism,’ he said to Allen Ginsberg, although it’s a better description of T.S. Eliot’s brand of antisemitism than his own). Kenner was bewitched by the ‘emphatic, aphoristic quality’ of Pound’s speech, which was ‘of a piece with the working of one of the most active minds I had ever experienced’. Kenner put some of the qualities ...”

“... her know where he was. He had already left London for a fortnight’s holiday in France with T.S. Eliot. This holiday has since become a part of Modernist folklore. It was the occasion on which Eliot, at Pound’s behest, delivered a parcel containing a pair of old brown shoes to a distinctly unappreciative James Joyce. The ...”

“... of his own life had the same mesmeric authority for early readers as the scraps from books read by Eliot have for readers of The Waste Land. Some of this confidence he was able to impart to his new friend Schmitz, particularly in relation to Senilita, about which Joyce was enthusiastic. He could soon declaim whole passages by heart. His suggested English ...”

“... everyone. ‘Listen, it’s time,’ he says. ‘Long past time, probably.’ The echo of T.S. Eliot (‘HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME’) nicely clocks Putnam as a man of letters and of London. He shows Laura the spot outside his office building that had been bombed in September 1940: ‘I had a photo by my desk for years. Stunning picture. Just a section of ...”

“... tools’ of imagination, and the sensitivity to language which enabled him to examine and test those tools. This is Empson the technocrat, the man who insisted that there is always room for a great deal of exposition, ‘in which the business of the critic is simply to show how the machine is meant to work, and therefore to show all its working parts ...”

“... master’. Degas was one of his favourite antisemites, Kitaj wrote; the others were Pound and Eliot.Pastel, particularly the crumbly Roché sort, can be used in layers, like glazes of pigment, but also as a drawing medium, which perfectly suited Kitaj’s sensibility as a painter anchored in draughtsmanship. His return to drawing in the 1970s was largely ...”