Article: There and back again.(journeys as themes in poems of T.S. Eliot, Manuel Bandiera, Fernando Pessoa, Joao Cabral)

Thomas Stearns Eliot, anima naturaliter Bostoniensis but born by accident (as the Portuguese like to put it) in St Louis, Missouri, was obliged from time to time to journey back from his essential to his accidental roots. (1) I imagine him en route, boarding the Southwestern Limited shortly before 6.00 p.m. at the South Station with the Boston Evening Transcript under his arm, and passing, some time after eleven the next morning, through Terre Haute, Indiana. It may well have been during such a journey that he observed the couple on their way back from Europe of whom he says, in his poem 'Lune de miel', 'Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent a Terre Haute'. (2)

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