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What is the Boston Evening Transcript?

The Boston Evening Transcript was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, published from July 24, 1830, to April 30, 1941.

Who is the author of the poem Love is a surgeon and the Boston Evening Transcript?

T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot, the 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as a poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor and publisher. In 1910 and 1911, while still a college student, he wrote “The Love Song…

What is hysteria by TS Eliot about?

‘Hysteria’ is a short prose poem spoken by a man in a dining room with a female companion. The woman is laughing – hysterically so, hence the title of the poem – and the man feels as if he is in danger of being sucked into the woman’s mouth as she opens it to laugh.

Who is hysteria?

Hysteria is a term used to describe emotional excess, but it was also once a common medical diagnosis. In layman’s terms, hysteria is often used to describe emotionally charged behavior that seems excessive and out of control.

What is Eliot’s advice for critics?

A critic should criticise the poetry of a poet but not the poet himself. He must criticise honestly and sincerely. In this respect, Eliot says–“Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.”Thus he has shown what a writer should do and should not do.

What according to TS Eliot is the relation of the poet to the past?

According to Eliot the past is never dead ; it lives in the present: “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.

What is TS Eliot known for?

Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943).

What does Jayanta Mahapatra focus on poetry?

Mahapatra belongs to the group of modern experimentalists in Indian English poetry. His works seem to be attempts to link to the kinds of Indian reality. Images employed in his poems try to bring to the surface his obsessing memories, doubts and experiences which have been the source material of his imagination.

What was the Boston Evening Transcript known for?

“ What was the Boston Evening Transcript? It was a daily afternoon paper that debuted many literary and poetic works and included columns on music criticism and book reviews. It eventually employed the first woman editor-in-chief of any major daily paper in the nation.

What does T.S.Eliot mean by Sway in the wind?

Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn. He likens the readers to ripe corn, swaying in the wind. This means they are ready for the harvest–or, to be “plucked.” Perhaps they are very easily “swayed” to be plucked–or indoctrinated–by the paper.

When did T.S.Eliot settle in London?

T.S. Eliot was an American-born (1888), Harvard-educated poet who settled in London in his mid-20s. There, his publications “ immediately established him as a leading poet of the avant-garde .” He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.

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