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• Aimless Reading: The Ss, Part 19.19 (William Shakespeare)

  
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  Shakespeare, William Antony and Cleopatra My first unwitting contact with this play came via T.S. Eliot. Theres a line in "The Wasteland" plucked directly from the play. Its actually the opening lines from the second section, A Game of Chess The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, ...
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• PJ Harvey Is Just One Love Song Among Many for T.S. Eliot

  
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  The Guardian tells us that pop music makers have one thing in common: T.S. Eliot? Eliot would not have loved pop music but pop music loves Eliot. Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land , he remains the lodestar poet for ambitious songwriters. They rummage through his masterpiece’s treasure chest ...
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• Grading Obama’s love letters: women swoon, men see through them

  
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  What kind of grade  would  he (Barack Obama) have gotten for such T.S. Eliot analysis…a reading that was admittedly done without perusing the footnotes? We checked in with some current members of the Columbia English department. Matthew Hart, who specializes in 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone culture with an ...
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• President Obama on T.S. Eliot: The Academics Weigh In

  
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  Everett T.S. Eliot Yesterday, excerpts were released from the upcoming David Maraniss biography “Barack Obama: The Story” to be published on June 19 by Simon & Schuster; Included are letters from President Barack Obama’s college/post-grad era, such as one he wrote in 1982 in which he discusses T.S. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pres. Obama on T.S. Eliot, Yeats, and Pound - to an ex-girlfriend!

  
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  I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements — Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time. Facing what he perceives as ...
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• Grading Obama’s ‘Classic Undergraduate-ese’

  
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  Earlier today, Intel poked a little fun at Barack Obamas youthful love letters, which, as one of our astute commenters pointed out, read a bit like he was simply repurposing his Columbia coursework in order to correspond with his long-distance paramour. We began to wonder: What kind of grade would ... ...
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• I Regret: My Undergraduate Poetry

  
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  Do you have regrets? Tell TheGloss your regrettable story in 600-800 words and you could win these designer shades to hide your shameful, shameful face. There was a time when I genuinely believed God intended I be a poetess. I regret everything about that time. This delusion was the result of a prolonged ...
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• A Portrait of Barack Obama as a Literary Young Man

  
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  Vanity Fair has published a long excerpt from David Maraniss ‘ upcoming biography, Barack Obama: The Story . The article features excerpts from letters Barack Obama wrote to an old girlfriend and passages from another girlfriend’s diary. In one letter from 1982, the future President shared a long ...
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• Adieu, cruel April

  
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  When I think of the month of April and Poetry, the opening of TS Eliots The Waste Land always comes first to mind: "April is the cruelest month," or so said the master. Ive fallen into the strange habit of occasionally rewriting passages from famous texts. Its probably a bit of sacrilege on my part to try it, but ...
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• The Last Romantic

  
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  The Broken Tower , written and directed by James Franco, starring James Franco, with Michael Shannon. The most obvious comment is that Hart Crane deserves better. A complex poet who tried to combine the ecstatic reach of Whitman with a Shakespearean richness of syntax and verbal excess, while haunted by the ...
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