Tag: T. S. Eliot

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T. S. Eliot's 'Portrait of a Lady' Published in Others One hundred years ago this month, the third issue of Alfred Kreymborg's little New York literary magazine Others appeared. The first issue, published in July, most notably contained Mina Loy's first four 'Love Songs'; the second, published in August, poems by Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens, including Stevens' first major...

Pierrot, the sad clown in white face and loose blouse, expressing slowly and subtly in the liminal space beyond words, emerged in the nineteenth century from his roots in stock comedies and pantomimes to become the embodiment of a certain strain of artistic sentiment: sensitive, melancholy, and intrinsically alone, playful and daring through the subversion of language while suggesting...