 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Drama - 1971 - 408 pages
...meet Mr. Hodgson I (Everyone wants to meet him) . V. Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad All Beg How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! With his features...If and Perhaps and But. How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliotl With a bobtail cur In a coat of fur And a porpentine cat And a wopsical hat: How unpleasant... | |
 | Flora Roy - Literary Collections - 1978 - 180 pages
...cultural and political adventurer who established an astonishing empire of the arts at Bayreuth, and Mr. Eliot, With his features of clerical cut, And...Restricted to what Precisely And If and Perhaps and But. Though the longest poem in the English language, in Ezra Pound's phrase, The Waste Land in its 433... | |
 | Martin Scofield - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 280 pages
...side of the poet (perhaps in particular his later prose style and part of Four Quartets) rather well: How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! With his features...Restricted to What Precisely And If and Perhaps and But. But the poems are rarely quite relaxed or ebullient enough to be really successful comic light verse,... | |
 | Christoph Irmscher - American poetry - 1992 - 414 pages
...affektierten, unangenehmen Maske geworden sind, die das Gesicht des "Mr. Eliot" zur Grimasse erstarren läßt: How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! With his features...Perhaps and But. How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! Eliots - von seinen Interpreten hier meist so bezeichneter - "Nonsense" ist zunächst einmal zitierter... | |
 | Paul Morrison - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 188 pages
...accomplishment from the deplorable polemic. There is, as Eliot well knew, something "unpleasant" about TS Eliot: With his features of clerical cut, And his...If and Perhaps and But. How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot!5 But if it is "unpleasant" to meet Mr. Eliot — and perhaps never more so than in these postmodern... | |
 | Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey - Fiction - 1931 - 352 pages
...representation that anticipates the even less flattering description that Eliot wrote of himself in 1933: How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! With his features...Restricted to What Precisely And If and Perhaps and But. ("Five-Finger Exercises" 135) Yet Louis is a sympathetic character, deeply informed by the "positively... | |
 | Lee Oser - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 206 pages
...what is at stake, from one of Eliot's minor gems, "Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg": How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! With his features...clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim . . , 12 Eliot is denying us the satisfaction of a dactylic adjective (for instance, "wopsical") before... | |
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How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim And his conversation, so nicely Restricted to What Precisely And If and Perhaps and But. 