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We had to read “Prufrock,” which is a lovely poem, and “The Waste Land,” which is a hodgepodge of glummery and borrowed paste.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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We had to read “Prufrock,” which is a lovely poem, and “The Waste Land,” which is a hodgepodge of glummery and borrowed paste.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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He, or Chowder, provide, as if in passing, a great deal of information, mixed with fearlessly unfashionable opinions: T.S. Eliot's "The Love S.ng of J. Alfred Prufrock" is "a lovely poem" but "The Waste Land" is "a hodgepodge of glummery and borrowed paste."
SFGate: Top News Stories Stephen Burt 2009
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( "The Waste Land" is a "hodge-podge of glummery and borrowed paste"), Italian Futurism and Billy Collins, whom he calls (with admitted unfairness, in a jealous moment) a "charming chirping crack whore."
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