A Man and His Work
"T HIS is an age which is sometimes deprecated for its insistent interest in people. It is often so much easier to read a biography of the poet than to come to grips with his work; or to see a film about Lautrec rather than to learn to appreciate painting. But curiosity about people of some consequence in the artistic world also has a positive aspect. At least it is better than indifference, and it sometimes illuminates the man’s work, or presents us with a more likeable person than we _ had created in our own mind. I myself do not care enough for T. S. Eliot’s poetry to explore it fully, nor do I share his opinions about society. Nevertheless, when earlier I heard him read some of his own verses, I came closer to a proper understanding of his. poems, and now that I have heard Robert Speaight’s very fine 3YC talk on Mr. Eliot the somewhat rigid and pedagogical figure in my own mind unexpectedly unbends to discuss the manuscript of the younger poet who has come to see him in his room at the publishing house of Faber
and Faber.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 11
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199A Man and His Work New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 11
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