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Article: Replacing The Waste Land: James Merrill's quest for transcendent authority. (The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot)
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- College Literature
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- June 1, 1993
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became more refined, the feeling became more crude" (274). At the other extreme, Eliot explains here and elsewhere, the influence of the "sentimental age" valued feeling instead of or at the expense of thought, thus exacerbating the dissociation. This he sees as a reaction against Milton and Dryden.
20 Kearns provides the most extensive examination of the Eastern influence on Eliot; also see Hay.
21 The line is particularly significant because it is the only line in the poem's concluding section (last 11 lines) that is not an allusion or a direct quote. It is, in other words, the There can be little doubt that the poetics of modernism, especially as typified ...