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OP doesn’t even acknowledge it. Eliot chose, in 1948, when the Holocaust was common knowledge, to reprint a poem that contains the line: >On the Rialto once./
by multjoy 1y ago
OP doesn’t even acknowledge it.
Eliot chose, in 1948, when the Holocaust was common knowledge, to reprint a poem that contains the line:
>On the Rialto once./The rats are underneath the piles. The jew is underneath the lot.
That isn’t a poet following a common zeitgeist, that is a deliberate, provocative act.
- tptacek 1y agoI think it's a valid and important observation, but it's not incumbent on someone bring up T.S. Eliot to offer a disclaimer about it, and you shouldn't write a comment that implies otherwise.