Dirty Boots: The Shift Away from Eliot (and Toward Tartuffe)

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. In his landmark 1919 essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” – published one hundred years ago this year – poet TS Eliot ended with this as one of his key points: To divert interest from the poet to the poetry is a laudable aim: for it would conduce to a juster estimation of actual poetry, good and bad. He was discussing poetry in… Read more Dirty Boots: The Shift Away from Eliot (and Toward Tartuffe) →