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  • Raine sees the more famous/notorious passage in "Gerontion" (excerpt) not as Eliot's vision of the squalid, squatting Jew but as that of the old man of the title.

    T.S. Eliot And The Jews 2008

  • I find, however, that Mr. Oscar Cargill declares that I maintain, in Axel's Castle, that T.S. Eliot borrowed from Blake his phrase in "Gerontion" "Christ the tiger."

    Fruit Salad Wilson, Edmund 1969

  • I clearly need to adopt a snootier sounding pseudonym, Maybe Gerontion Pickled-Herring VI, or some such.

    Matthew Yglesias » Disabling Embedding 2010

  • In September 1943 at a London poetry recital, Eliot chose to read "Gerontion."

    T.S. Eliot And The Jews 2008

  • News at Eleven: One point of dispute is the notorious passage in Gerontion 1919: "My house is a decayed house,/And the jew squats on the window-sill, the owner,/Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp,/Blistered in Brussels, patched and peeled in London."

    News at Eleven: One point of dispute Rus Bowden 2007

  • Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot, who in his early poem Gerontion, written in the aftermath of

    Nobel Prize Authors on Time 2001

  • If the other Shelleyan ideas he found repellent included those which Salt enumerated in Shelley's Principlesdisdain for tyranny of all sorts, whether of one class of humans over another, or of humans over other forms of lifethen the maturity which Eliot commends painfully resembles the withered sensibility depicted in Gerontion: "Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season."

    Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity 2001

  • This is from “Gerontion” by T. S. Eliot, who carved the phrases from Henry's description of Rock Creek in the Education.

    America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

  • It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • Mariana, "whose" blue fly sung in the pane "; the deft spider recalls Gerontion."

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

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