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Script for September 26, 2001
Today we remember Thomas Stearns Elliot, the poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor who was born on this date in 1888. History credits T.S. Eliot with revitalizing English poetry and establishing a new critical approach to the genre. But poets are best remembered for their way with words, and today we celebrate some of Eliot's words that are still remembered today.
"April is the cruelest month", mused Eliot in his 1922 poem, The Wasteland. Three years later, in The Hollow Men, he condemned—or mourned—his generation as devoid of any significant ideas, principles, or purposes with his lament, "We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men."
One of the poet's best known refrains dates back to 1917, when Eliot published his first poem to achieve renown. Credited as the first masterpiece of modernism in English, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock brought us the immortal lines
And indeed, there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"...
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
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