>Ashbery strikes me as someone who draws most interestingly from Eliot's
music; say parts of Flow Chart...
Oooh, interesting association - & music and more - The Painter could be
Ashbery's Prufrock via Vasari, with the common source with Eliot in
Browning!
This is fun!
and - rummage rummage through a Perloff book - the opening of Leaving the
Atocha Station "reads rather like a Dada collage or cadavre exquis made by
jumbling and cutting up the lines from The Wasteland: 'Oh keep that dog far
hence, that's friend to men / Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!'"
and The New Spirit finds its way to Dante via Baudelaire, and via
Eliot-Baudelaire-Dante in parallel... "Who are all these people? Who does it
mean that there are so many?"
though Ashbery is i think often re-inhabiting forms or else mini-mizing
Eliot, shrugging off all that dead weight of modernist symbolism/allegory
with a cartoon, a thriller movie, King Kong...
Edmund
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