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Paglia On Poets

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Camille Paglia critiques the twentieth century’s most famous men and women of letters. Read the review of Paglia's book "Break, Blow, Burn" and the profile of Paglia.


On T.S. Eliot:
“That view of culture [in “The Waste Land”] is wrong. It represents a nihilistic, solipsistic, ultimately juvenile view of the world.”

On Elizabeth Bishop:
“I suddenly felt how repressed she was, how distant, how self involved—how nature wasn’t really there, it was just Elizabeth Bishop floating through the world in this depressive haze.”

On Robert Frost:
“To me, Frost is the ultimate American WASP voice.”


—Lois E. Beckett

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