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Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Literary researcher | Creative reader

Tag: T.S. Eliot

  • Whose fault is it anyway? Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’

    Whose fault is it anyway? Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’

    No doubt editors are as old as authors. For Shakespeare, there were not only his fellow actors, but also the Master of the Revels to regulate, edit, and to censor his plays. T.S. Eliot made abundant and explicit use of Ezra Pound’s incisive cutting for ‘The Waste Land’ (1922), calling him ‘il miglio fabbro’ (‘the…