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Literature and the Real Person

The invitation to visit Chicago, the outline provided of the Foundation’s aims, and the name of the Award, made me think at once of a poem by T.S. Eliot, in which he describes a British visitor to America. The poem is called Mr. Apollinax. I use T. S. Eliot to introduce the subject about which...