… The Patient on the Table: On the Somewhat Exaggerated Death of Poetry. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Walther correctly credits Eliot with creating “an idiom that captured the disappearance” of this romantic worldview, but he does not correctly perceive why Eliot did so. Walther calls the romantic vision “pre-modern,” but as I have argued, it was indeed consummately modern. What did not seem modern was the sentimental and imaginative response of the romantics to the mechanistic reduction.
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