Spleen
T.S. Eliot * Track #1 On Poems Written In Early Youth
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Spleen by T.S. Eliot
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First printed in 1910 (specifically January 26th, 1910, in The Harvard Advocate, lxxxviii, 8) when Eliot was 22, but uncollected until the 1967 publication of Poems Written in Early Youth, this is a glimpse at the poet Eliot might have been.
It’s almost too mellifluous: every rhyme in its extremely...
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Sunday: this satisfied procession
Of definite Sunday faces;
Bonnets, silk hats, and conscious graces
In repetition that displaces
Your mental self-possession
By this unwarranted digression.
Evening, lights, and tea!
Children and cats in the alley;
Dejection unable to rally
Against this dull conspiracy.
And Life, a little bald and gray,
Languid, fastidious and bland,
Waits, hat and gloves in hand,
Punctilious of tie and suit
(Somewhat impatient of delay)
On the doorstep of the Absolute.
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When did T.S. Eliot release Spleen?
T.S. Eliot released Spleen on Wed Jan 26 1910.