This is a very interesting question, because it's so different than most of the discussion we have in this club. Most of our discussions are about our own writing processes, but this has more to do with a critical thinking/emotional reaction to others' writing. Bravo - you're getting a prop for this one! We need more of this, and I never even noticed the absence until now.
I haven't looked at these works since university, so I may provide a more detailed reaction to those specific works later, but I recall being very impressed with Eliot. For all that the modernists claimed to reject a lot of the traditional forms, they were still very disciplined and fairly structured artists. The poems had a lot of depth and nuance to explore, and as such I enjoyed them more than all but the best of the post-modernists (and the most ridiculous ones, too; I have a taste for the absurd), whose craft was much harder to quantify.
I haven't looked at these works since university, so I may provide a more detailed reaction to those specific works later, but I recall being very impressed with Eliot. For all that the modernists claimed to reject a lot of the traditional forms, they were still very disciplined and fairly structured artists. The poems had a lot of depth and nuance to explore, and as such I enjoyed them more than all but the best of the post-modernists (and the most ridiculous ones, too; I have a taste for the absurd), whose craft was much harder to quantify.
