Cousin Nancy
T.S. Eliot * Track #8 On Prufrock and Other Observations
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Cousin Nancy by T.S. Eliot
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According to Terri Mester, Eliot wrote this poem in 1915 while at Oxford, England, and it was “one of a series of satirical vignettes on contemporary mores and New England manners, presumably between relatives and people the poet knew in Boston and Cambridge”. This poem appears with Eliot’s other s...
Cousin Nancy Annotated
Miss Nancy Ellicott
Strode across the hills and broke them
Rode across the hills and broke them—
The barren New England hills—
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it
But they knew that it was modern
Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith
The army of unalterable law