T. S. ELIOT
T. S. Eliot was Siegfried Sassoon’s literary bête noir . In the years following the First World War Sassoon found himself caught between his beloved Georgian po- ets and the rise of modernism and its proponents in Eliot, Pound and the Sitwells. Reflecting on this later, he would write: “I now live almost entirely detached from the literary scene and the younger gen- eration and am liable to assume that none of them regard me as having any signif- icance in the Eliot/Auden age”. While he had little time for the modernists in general, he reserved particular scorn for Eliot, and expresses his frustration creatively in the Christmas card from “Pas- tor T. Stearns Eliot” offered opposite, complete with Eliot’s clipped signature.
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