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INTERVIEWER
Do you think there’s a connection with the American past?
ELIOT
Yes, but I couldn’t put it any more definitely than that, you see. It wouldn’t be what it is, and I imagine it wouldn’t be so good; putting it as modestly as I can, it wouldn’t be what it is if I’d been born in England, and it wouldn’t be what it is if I’d stayed in America. It’s a combination of things. But in its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America.
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| Authors Mentioned |
| Conrad Aiken, Charles Baudelaire, Ezra Pound, Aeschylus, Irving Babbitt, Robert Bridges, Edward FitzGerald, Théophile Gautier, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Jules Laforgue, Amy Lowell, Elkin Mathews, Stuart Merrill, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Edwin Arlington Robinson, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Francis Viélé-Griffin, W. B. Yeats |
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