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The Dramas of T. S. Eliot and their Greek Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

R. G. Tanner
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The death of T. S. Eliot removed from the world of English letters a staunch and resolute advocate of the Greek tradition in our modern literature. The precise interaction between this tradition in which the poet believed so firmly and his own five verse dramas therefore deserves some consideration.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 1970 , pp. 123 - 134
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1970

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page 123 note 1 Cf. ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ in The Sacred Wood (London, 1920), 47–59.Google Scholar

page 123 note 2 The Classics and the Man of Letters (London, 1943), 9–10 and 12.Google Scholar

page 124 note 1 Proceedings of the Classical Association, 1 (1953), 12–14.Google Scholar

page 128 note 1 Λοξίου κεκλήμεθα (311) is taken by Vellacott as ‘Apollo's slave’. Both views are tenable, but Eliot clearly rendered it as child.

page 130 note 1 Tanner, R. G., ‘The Composition of Oedipus Coloneus’ in For Services to Classical Studies (Melbourne, 1966), 184.Google Scholar