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Voices and Visions

vronsky — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:48:41 -0800

Voices and Visions explores -- through interviews, archival footage, and readings -- the lives and works of some of America’s greatest poets. Newsweek called the series "the most ambitious, most expensive and most accomplished series of films ever made about American poetry." Elizabeth Bishop 1::2::3 l T.S. Eliot 1::2::3::4 l Robert Frost 1::2::3 l Wallace Stevens 1::2 l William Carlos Williams 1::2 l Ezra Pound 1 l Langston Hughes 1::2 l Marianne Moore 1::2 l home

Poetry mashups: These are not the beats you were looking for

mosk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:22:03 -0800

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after. See hover text for link descriptions. Acknowledgement/Mea Culpa: The T.S. Eliot/Portishead mashup was a previous FPP in its own right, (props, hypersloth!) but it fit so well with the other links that I included it in this FPP anyway.

The Modernist Journals Project

mediareport — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:50:15 -0800

The Modernist Journals Project collects literary arts journals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including both issues of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist manifesto Blast, the first ten years of Poetry magazine (with Amy Lowell, T.S. Eliot, G.K. Chesterton and foreign correspondent Ezra Pound), topical essays, the Virginia Woolf-inspired December 1910 Project, the amazing proto-dada zine Le Petit Journal des Réfusées and a searchable biographical database of famous and not so famous artists and writers.

Food For The Soul

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:19:27 -0800

Great Poets Of The 20th Century. From The Guardian so Brit bias... Introduction, William Boyd on Siegfried Sassoon, John Banville on Seamus Heaney, Jeanette Winterson on Ted Hughes, Andrew Motion on Philip Larkin, Margaret Drabble on Sylvia Plath, Rowan Williams on WH Auden, Craig Raine on T.S. Eliot.

IM IN UR WASTELANDS, RUINING UR LITERATURES

ardgedee — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:04:23 -0800

IM IN UR WASTELAND BURYING UR DEAD
april hates u, makes lilacs, u no can has.
april in ur memoriez, making ur desire.
spring rain in ur dull rootzes.

Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse...

monju_bosatsu — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:35:03 -0800

T.S. Eliot reads the The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, accompanied by Portishead.

"They'll be serving Joyce Happy Meals next."

anjamu — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:01:14 -0800

“You should consider a new career as a garbage collector in New York City, because you’ll never quote a Joyce text again." A New Yorker profile of Stephen Joyce, the man who controls James Joyce's estate - and, by extension, Joycean scholarship the world over. [more inside]

Ezra Pound Finally Makes The Library of America

MiguelCardoso — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:17:51 -0800

Some Of Our Best Poets Are Fascists: An interesting article by Guy Davenport. My own theory is that an inordinate percentage of great (and minor) Modernist writers were, politically speaking, bonkers. Ezra Pound, Fernando Pessoa and T.S.Eliot were all distastefully authoritarian, anti-semitic and, in general, rancorous old farts. Why is this, if anyone still cares? [Via Arts and Letters Daily.]

Writers' and Artists' Faces And Demeanours

MiguelCardoso — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:06:20 -0800

How I Met And Dated Miss Emily Dickinson: Have you ever wondered what a favourite writer really looked like? Is there any relationship between an artist's face and their art? Hemingway looks like his prose; Ezra Pound like his poetry; Picasso is a dead ringer for his paintings but, say, John Updike doesn't resemble his fiction; T.S.Eliot looks like a bank clerk and Matisse was nothing like his works. How superficial can you get? [Via Arts and Letters Daily.]

PoetryFilter

UKnowForKids — Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:56:43 -0800

"Exploring The Waste Land" is one of those sites that defines for me what the Internet should be. It utilizes the medium of the webpage to produce a result - an incredibly useful annotation of T. S. Eliot's masterpiece The Waste Land - that wouldn't work well at all on the printed page. [more inside]

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 07:12:52 -0800

The Red On The Blue (And On The Button): Terry Eagleton's description of T.S. Eliot's politics is easily the best definition of traditional Conservatism written by an untraditional Marxist I've ever read.[More Inside]

Ljubljana — Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:38:03 -0800

Did perfume from a dress make T.S. Eliot so digress? Or was it the scent of other men? A rash of biographies this year claim to have found closet homosexuals just about everywhere; Adolf Hitler, G.F. Handel, Friedrich Nietzsche and T.S. Eliot are all suspected – largely without substantial evidence – of being gay. [more inside]

bunnyfire — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:52:11 -0800

Not exactly T.S. Eliot... April is indeed the cruelest month, so I went in search of something to honor the great master of English poetry. But this is what I found instead.