For much of his life T.S. Eliot was surrounded by an aura of greatness: people accepted it, and behaved accordingly. That kind of consensus is not helpful for a writer or his works, as Eliot himself clearly saw, observing that nobody had ever written anything significant after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature – true at the time and mostly true since.
Philip Hensher
Is T.S. Eliot’s great aura fading?
With new revelations about his anti-Semitism, his reputation looks seriously threatened

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