<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551581" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Erudition And Despair</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Erudition and despair, <br>thriving symbiotically, <br>synergistically, a pair<br>devoid of what, erotically, <br>might seize the readers by the guts, <br>consume in their banality<br>and soi disant finality<br>my work with ifs and ans and buts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All my insights merely heightened<br>awareness of how incomplete<br>were my attempts be enlightened, <br>seeking goals I could not meet.<br>If were not so erudite, <br>perhaps I could give up despair, <br>but though God’s great, and always right, <br>that doesn’t mean He must be fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Richard Bernstein, reviewing Lyndall Gordon's 'T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life' (W. W. Norton) ('Portrait of a Visionary In a Heap of Broken Images, ' the NYT, August 18,1999) writes: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Unlike the artist, Eliot does not criticize an actual world but creates a 'phantasmal' world of lust, filth, boredom and malice on which he gazes in fascinated horror, ' she writes. Ms. Gordon also argues that the work has largely been misread. Critics have 'fastened on his despair and erudition, ' she argues, and in so doing they have missed the 'visionary alternative' that Eliot presented in the poem, the 'possibility of regeneration'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">8/18/99,1/19/09</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551581" data-title="Erudition And Despair de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Erudition and despair, thriving symbiotically, synergistically, a pair devoid of what, erotically, might seize the readers by the guts, consume in their banality and soi disant finality my work with ifs and ans and buts. All my insights merel..."></div> </div> </div>

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