Modern American Poetry

(^352) David Bromwich The Waste Landand The Bridgewere not assisted imaginatively by the encyclopedic ambition to which they owe ...

T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane 353 Rail-squatters ranged in nomad raillery, The ancient men—wifeless or runaway Hobo-trekkers that fo ...

(^354) David Bromwich “empire wilderness of freight and rails” connect the memory with a different nostalgia. The paths a single ...

T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane 355 that made the requirement of such knowledge all the more pressing. Eliot’s usual metaphors when th ...

(^356) David Bromwich Whereas, in The Waste Land,nothing can come of any memory that is reengaged, The Bridgeoffers another kind ...

T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane 357 Witness now this trust! the rain That steals softly direction And the key, ready to hand—sifting O ...

(^358) David Bromwich screen: Would it have been worth while with the unreluctant answer of “Possessions”: I know the screen, th ...

T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane 359 though with a shift of emphasis. Prufrock’s companion had to be knowledgeable in the ways of eroti ...

(^360) David Bromwich other writers, almost vanished. He would appear then as a romantic hero, uneasily committed in his early y ...

T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane 361 be a weak secondary clue. Your smoke—the possessive pronoun is impersonal, its grammar that of Ham ...

(^362) David Bromwich Let not the pilgrim see himself again For slow evisceration bound like those huge terrapin Each daybreak o ...

363 H.D. is the last of the great generation born in the 1880s to receive due recognition. Pound, Joyce, Eliot, Lawrence all rec ...

(^364) Louis L. Martz Why, then, did the term cling to her poetry? Partly because H.D. continued to support the movement after P ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 365 you will break the lie of men’s thoughts, and cherish and shelter us.^4 Such a style is far remov ...

(^366) Louis L. Martz Squalor spreads its hideous length through the carts and the asses’ feet— squalor has entered and taken ou ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 367 And then the poem abruptly ends with what seems to be a tribute to the creative achievement of th ...

(^368) Louis L. Martz Slay with your eyes, Greek, men over the face of the earth, slay with your eyes, the host, puny, passionle ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 369 so slight, so sweet, so simple a word as love. Something deeper, something more mysterious than t ...

(^370) Louis L. Martz but once awake, hard, hard, hard is the lot of the ignorant man ... (CP,227) This effort to achieve someth ...

H.D.: Set Free to Prophesy 371 continues with allusions to the Gospels, especially to the parables, combining these with allusio ...