he Quarterlies A Special Report
The winter 1966 Sewanee Review, a fat 387 pages, edited for this issue by Allen Tate, honors the memory of T. S. Eliot. Robert Giroux’s “A Per- sonal Memoir” is the best of the twenty-seven contributions, grace- fully written and disclosing the rarely heard-of man himself, an Eliot who was a student of the boxing style of Joe Louis and the wit of Groucho Marx. He tells of the only meeting of Carl Sandburg (no admirer of Eliot) and the Possum, who grinned throughout the encounter and said nothing at all. In Ezra Pound’s con- tribution we find: “Who is there now for me to share a joke with?” And: “His was the true Dantescan voice.” Eliot’s, Washington University Cen- tennial Address gets printed, uniden- tified as a piece fourteen years old.
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