6/20/2023 0 Comments The secret history richard papen![]() And Eliot himself even turns up in the form of a lengthy quotation from "The Waste Land.". Also in the cast is a French professor named Laforgue Jules Laforgue, the French Symbolist poet, was one of the most important influences on the early work of (here he is again) T.S. Eliot dedicated "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound, "the better craftsman." This is pretty heady stuff, and it doesn't stop there.Īmong the collegiate heroes of The Secret History is a young man named Edmund Corcoran, whose nickname, Bunny, inevitably recalls that celebrated man of letters, Edmund "Bunny" Wilson Wilson's Axel's Castle contains one of the definitive critical appraisals of Eliot. ![]() ![]() $25ĭONNA TARTT's mellifluous, ambitious first novel, The Secret History, arrives trailing clouds of glorious associations: its dedication is to her "muse and Maecenas" (the latter was the patron of Horace and Virgil) its acknowledgements thank among others the author's editor, "il miglior fabbro" - which any English major can tell you is how T. ![]()
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