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Article: T. S. Eliot and the French Intelligence: Reading Julien Benda.(Critical Essay)

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T. S. Eliot's connections with the French, Jewish cultural commentator Julien Benda (1867-1956) have not been widely discussed, and references to their relationship are usually made in passing.(1) Eliot did not write a great deal about Benda; in his bibliography of Eliot's works, Donald Gallup lists only a review of Benda's La Trahison des clercs in the Cambridge Review of June 6, 1928 (reprinted in the New Republic later that year). To this can be added the final section of the essay "Imperfect Critics" in The Sacred Wood, stimulated by Benda's book Belphegor (1918).(2) But more important, references and allusions in the Criterion and elsewhere in his journalism indicate ... 







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