A bit of and a bite at “The Boston Evening Transcript”

The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript / Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.
From: T.S. Eliot, “The Boston Evening Transcript,” Poetry 7, no. 1 (October 1915): 21.

I like these first two lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Boston Evening Transcript.” I’ve clipped them (sort of) from the issue of Poetry magazine in which the poem first was published. Probably it’s a little strange that I should like them, because I don’t think he meant them to be lovely. Continue reading “A bit of and a bite at “The Boston Evening Transcript””