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by blacksmith_tb
1630 days ago
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It's a strange exercise in hagiography that points out his many flaws? Dirda seems content to mostly enthuse over Eliot's work, not his person. I am inclined to agree with him, from the Moderns onward we've had a much clearer picture of the people behind the art, and many of them were unpleasant, not just Eliot but Picasso, Charles Mingus, and on and on. But I wouldn't want to never enjoy their work again (and rejecting it won't help anyone they trampled along the way). Better to hold our contemporaries to higher standards, which might do some good. |
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