Louis, Missouri in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. ... He discovered Dante and heard talk of reviving poetic drama. ... S. ... S. ... His critical prose set the aesthetic standards for the New Criticism, and his journal  Criterion  was one of the primary arbiters of taste throughout the 1920's and 1930's. ...

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39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!") ... S. ... The epigraph comes from the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy (XXVII, 61-66). Count Guido da Montefeltro, embodied in a flame, replies to Dante's question about his identity as one condemned for giving lying advice: "If I believed that my answer would be to someone who would ever return to earth, this flame would move no more, but because no one has ever returned alive from this gulf, if what I hear is true, I can repl...

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