In1939 a new poetry magazine appearedin Japan with the title Arechi,meaning’Waste Land’;the name,the editor said later,expressed‘our mental elimate’.In describinghis immediate response to Eliot’s The WasteLand,an...In1939 a new poetry magazine appearedin Japan with the title Arechi,meaning’Waste Land’;the name,the editor said later,expressed‘our mental elimate’.In describinghis immediate response to Eliot’s The WasteLand,another Japanese observed that tohis youthful eyes the world depicted there‘seemed to reflect our own sad and disillu-sioned world’.Other countries,some ofthem equally remote in space from the os-tensible setting of the poem,have reactedin similar ways.Rather differently,Eliot’searly essay Tradition and the IndividualTalent proved of timely interest in coun-tries where European and American literarypractices had impinged on the native litera-ture:far from being inert or burdensome,展开更多
文摘In1939 a new poetry magazine appearedin Japan with the title Arechi,meaning’Waste Land’;the name,the editor said later,expressed‘our mental elimate’.In describinghis immediate response to Eliot’s The WasteLand,another Japanese observed that tohis youthful eyes the world depicted there‘seemed to reflect our own sad and disillu-sioned world’.Other countries,some ofthem equally remote in space from the os-tensible setting of the poem,have reactedin similar ways.Rather differently,Eliot’searly essay Tradition and the IndividualTalent proved of timely interest in coun-tries where European and American literarypractices had impinged on the native litera-ture:far from being inert or burdensome,
