Tag Archives: T. S. Eliot

Music and Mass Media

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

STUDENT: I think that the ‘emotion’ we try to cloth art in placates its inherent deeper ‘feeling’ or perhaps transcendence. It is an ‘anthropomorphism’ of the indescribable just as a wolf’s howl is not forlorn but only made so in … Continue reading →

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T. S. Eliot’s Magdalenian Draughtsmen vs. Nietzsche’s Prehistoric Murderers and Self-Mutilators

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

Jean-Pierre Vernant “Tension and Ambiguity in Greek Tragedy” (1972) –Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, … Continue reading →

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Neurasthenia and Modernity

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

Edvard Munch Friedrich Nietzsche (1906) NEURASTHENIA: (noun) Psychiatry (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion. Edvard Munch The Dance of Life (1900) A life in boundless pursuit of … Continue reading →

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Moderation, Popular Consensus and Mediocrity as The Criteria of Artistic Value

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

A: Everything needs to be moderated. Who can say when we should and should not applause. An applause should be an outer expression of what one feels on an inner more personal plane. I hate going to concerts and feeling … Continue reading →

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Writing about The Dead vs. Writing among The Dead – Modernity and The Waste Land

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

S: I have to ask is it right to judge a previous century against the more recent in regards to technologies available? It’s like getting critical of cavemen for not using Adobe Photoshop CS5 to do a painting. But yes, … Continue reading →

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Tradition and the Prehistoric Talent – Not Primitivism but Stoneage Classicism

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

[The artist] must be aware that the mind of Europe–the mind of his own country–a mind which he learns in time to be much greater than his own private mind–is a mind which changes, and that this change is a … Continue reading →

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“The English Countenance”

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

The difference is not a simple difference of degree between poets. It is something which had happened to the mind of England between the time of Donne or Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the time of Tennyson and Browning; it … Continue reading →

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Apotheosis vs. Martyrdom

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

T. S. Eliot’s writings on the Metaphysical poets presents the modern poet as at odds with two poets from the baroque era, Milton and Dryden. These two figures do not just differ from the modern poet but they in fact … Continue reading →

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