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The modernist poet T. S. Eliot has been applauded and denounced for decades asa staunch champion of high art and an implacable opponent of popular culture.But Eliots elitism was never what it seemed. T. S. Eliot and the CulturalDivide refurbishes this great writer for the twentyfirst century presentinghim as the complex figure he was an artist attentive not only to literaturebut to detective fiction vaudeville theater jazz and the songs of Tin PanAlley.David Chinitz argues that Eliot was productively engaged with popular culturein some form at every stage of his career and that his response to it asexpressed in his poetry plays and essays was ambivalent rather than hostile.He shows that American jazz for example was a major influence on Eliotspoetry during its maturation. He discusses Eliots surprisingly persistentinterest in popular culture both in such famous works as The Waste Land and insuch lesserknown pieces as Sweeney Agonistes. And he traces Eliots longquixotic struggle to close the widening gap between high art and popularculture through a new type of public art contemporary popular verse drama.What results is a work that will persuade adherents and detractors alike toreturn to Eliot and find in him a writer who liked a good show a goodthriller and a good tune as well as a great poem. «
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