T. S. Eliot — a remark

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“It is not from rules, or by cold-blooded imitation of style, that we learn to write: we learn by imitation indeed, but by a deeper imitation than is achieved by analysis of style.”

Describing literary influence as absorption rather than mechanical copying · Essay, The Music of Poetry

About T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

26 September 1888–4 January 1965

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on 26 September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died on 4 January 1965 in London. In the course of a life that crossed the Atlantic both literally and imaginatively, he became one of the defining writers of literary modernism: a poet whose fractured early works gave memorable form to…

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