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June 10, 2022

Will T.S. Eliot’s Anti-Semitism Diminish His Aura?

Prejudice “elevated to an idiotic principle.”

Reviewing the newly released second volume of a biography of T.S. Eliot, Philip Hensher finds himself asking if the dean of modernist poetry really deserved the prominence that he attained in his own lifetime, and has held onto after his death. One of the “cracks” that Hensher finds appearing in Eliot’s “once unassailable reputation” involves his anti-Semitism, which showed up occasionally in his verse.

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