T.S. Eliot

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is a poet with a remarkable range of diction, and with a natural gift for the vividly memorable phrase.

Eliot was from the first a poet with a remarkable range of diction, and with a natural gift for the vividly memorable phrase. He was always consciously aware of the varied resources of English poetic diction and delighted to place an exotic word exactly, or to give us a sudden shock which the unexpected introduction of a commonplace word or phrase can provide.

is pale, marmoreal, like a chapped office boy on a high stool, with a cold in his head.

is at times an excellent poet. He has arrived at the supreme eminence among English critics largely through disguising himself as a corpse.

is pale and marmoreal like a chapped office boy on a high stool, with a cold in his head.

Pale, marmoreal Eliot was there last week, like a chapped office boy on a high stool, with a cold in his head.

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T.S. Eliot