T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
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T.S. Eliot
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T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
[Page] 12. Manuscript in blue ink.
;] in pencil;—1st reading.
8] Further readings added in pencil, then deleted: intellectualist above idealist; Attentive intuitionist following idealist. TSE has boldly bracketed ( ) the line in pencil, probably not as punctuation but for reconsideration.
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The eldest of the mandarins,
A stoic in obese repose,
With intellectual double chins,
Regards the corner of his nose;
The cranes that fly across a screen
Pert, alert,
Observe him with a frivolous mien—
Indifferent idealist,
World in fist,
Screen and cranes.
And what of all that one has missed!
And how life goes on different planes!
Mandarins III was written by T.S. Eliot.
Mandarins III was produced by Sir Christopher Ricks.