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What should we make of the fact that T.S. Eliot came to admire Samuel Johnson and his literary criticism so much later in his life? He once called Johnson "a dangerous man with whom to disagree." I find it fascinating that a Modernist like Eliot would come to love an arch-conservative like Johnson so much.

>>24861510 (OP)
Imagine signing things T. Eliot.

T.S. Eliot was so conservative he converted to the Church of England just to be as Tory as possible. Johnson was a Tory but he hardly had some sort of demand art stay purely the same, he criticized Milton for being too classical and lacking emotion

>>24861510 (OP)
Truly, it is a fact that will change the entire culture of the board.

>>24861510 (OP)
Wasn't TS Eliot very conservative?

>>24861510 (OP)
T.S. Elliot was a giga conservative, what are you talking about
Did you confuse modernism, the vague umbrella term for 20th century post romanticism art with "modernism" as defined by retarded grifters online?
Wait until you learn that Dali, Pirandello and Pound were fascist synpathizers and that Evola was also did weird abstract futurist art

>>24861510 (OP)
Pound and Eliot actually got their criticism of Milton from Johnson, where he says that Milton writes English as though it were a dead language

>>24862392
Almost every single modernist author I can think of is conservative. Even the bull dyke Gertrude Stein was conservative and a fascist sympathizer.

>>24862502
> conservative
Idk about conservative, I wouldn’t consider Ezra Pound conservative. More likely to praise/quote Marx than Edmund Burke. The old left had a kind of edge to it that makes you think its conservative but that misses the point. I was reading Proudhons book Pornocracie and wow, this guy was the master of anti-feminism. It’s actually an insane and amazing book, he makes Strindberg look soft. But this is the father of anarchism and a huge influence of Marx