1. The Brilliance of T. S. Eliot
Early Life and Education Born in St. ... He attended lectures by Henri Bergson and read poetry with Alain-Fournier. ... This city had a monumental and life-altering impact on Eliot for multiple reasons, the most significant of which was his introduction to the influential literary figure Ezra Pound. ... Everything about his poetry bespeaks high modernism: its use of myth to undergird and order atomized modern experience; its collage-like juxtaposition of different voices, traditions, and discourses; and its focus on form as the carrier of meaning. ... He also became the most influential ...
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