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" Low and dispirited murmurings " would pass we ll for a

description of several of Mr. T. S. Eliot's Poems, 1909-1925 (Faber and Gwyer). He is so considerable a poet, and his influence upon young writers is so great, that we grow angry with him for the frozen timidity of his mind ; yet we feel ourselves to be like thoie who would disturb the calm of pro- fessorial lectures by calling with brutal and unmannerly voices : " Speak up ! Speak up ! " As for technical and " mere literary " virtues, they abound in Mr. Eliot beyond measure.

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