Volume 37, Number 2 · February 15, 1990
Bleistein and Mr. Eliot
By Michael Wood
T.S. Eliot and Prejudice
by Christopher Ricks
University of California Press, 290 pp., $25.00
'The question of anti-Semitism in Eliot is important,' Christopher Ricks says in his much-discussed new book, 'exactly because it cannot be isolated for discussion; it entails the larger, though admittedly not more intense, question of prejudice in general.' We may feel the question of anti-Semitism in Eliot would be important even if it could be isolated for discussion, particularly if we have some of Eliot's more prejudicial images, of the kind literary scholars often prefer to forget, hanging in our minds. Like the following, from 'Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar':
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