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“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang, but with a mortgage payment”
The St. Louis Riverfront Times takes a look at the recently-purchased childhood home of T.S. Eliot (cat statue (pictured above) included):
Eliot lived in this house when he wrote his first poem at the age of 15, a school exercise which was later published in the Harvard Advocate, the university’s student magazine. Ugh, some poetry prodigies are just such show offs.
Posted in Poetry News on Friday, July 9th, 2010 by Harriet Staff.