we stumbled over his sneering references to Jews. And with the 1989 publication of "T.S. Eliot and Prejudice" (University of California Press) by Christopher Ricks, and 1995's "T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form" by Anthony Julius (Thames & Hudson), poetry lovers have a clear account of how Eliot, author of "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets," expressed his problem with the Jews.
Anti-Semitism is not visible in these major works of Eliot, but it does recur in earlier poems, as Joseph Black observes in a 2010 edition of "The Waste Land and Other Poems" from Broadview Press: "Few published works displayed the consistency of association that one finds in Eliot's early poetry between what is Jewish and what is squalid and distasteful."
from Forward: T.S. Eliot's On-Again, Off-Again Anti-Semitism
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