T.S. Eliot's Bleistein Poems Uses of Literary Allusion in 'Burbank with a Baedeker, Bleistein with a Cigar' and 'Dirge'

by Sloane, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9781573093316
• ISBN10: 1573093319
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-02
• Publisher: International Scholars Publications

Summary

Patricia Sloane's study is a detailed reassessment of two of the poet's most provocative works that examines Eliot's allusions and larger purpose. In this close reading of the two poems in which Bleistein appears, Sloane shows that Burbank is an intricate derivation of Dante's Inferno.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Shyamal Bagchee
Author's Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Jews and Infidels in Inferno 4 and in ``Burbank''	21	(34)
Eyes that See and Eyes that Fail (Inferno 4)	30	(16)
The Unexplained Absence of One-Eyed Bleistein	46	(6)
Bleistein's Eye and Dante's Vision Metaphor	52	(3)
Money in Furs; Money in Non-Ferrous Metals I	55	(24)
``A line, a white line, a long white line''	55	(4)
Three Drowned ``Semites''	59	(7)
Four Drowned ``Anglo-Saxons''	66	(4)
Bifurcating Leopold Bloom	70	(9)
Money in Furs; Money in Non-Ferrous Metals II	79	(28)
Bleistein and Job	79	(7)
Eliot's ``Burbank'' and Joyce's ``Ulysses''	86	(4)
ASARCO and the American Fur Company	90	(11)
Sir Alfred Mond and Non-Ferrous Metals	101	(6)
Is Bleistein a Poet? (Part One)	107	(16)
Forbidden Words and Forgotten Practices	107	(7)
Bleistein's Eye and Other Amazing Body Parts	114	(9)
Is Bleistein a Poet? (Part Two)	123	(18)
Poet Stereotypes	123	(8)
Browning's Cigar and Salmon's Estaminet	131	(8)
Playing with Poetic Form; Playing with Readers	139	(2)
``Full Fathom Five Your Bleistein Lies''	141	(22)
Metaphoric Brother Father Bleistein	141	(10)
``Graves' Disease'' and Crabby Graves	151	(4)
John Ruskin on Canaletto and Jewish Merchants	155	(8)
Beautiful Caricatures, Serious Humor	163	(16)
Merchants and Sailors	163	(4)
Lustrous Pearls (``that were his eyes'')	167	(2)
My Eyes Failed, and Other Issues of Capitalization	169	(10)
A Wilderness of Lions, Wheels, and Kingdoms	179	(12)
Ezekiel's Lion in a Wheel	179	(6)
Dante's Beasts and the Lion's Pedicure	185	(2)
Three and Four Kingdoms	187	(4)
Eliot's Jews (Capitalized and Uncapitalized)	191	(22)
Jews, Hebrews, Semites and Israelites	191	(12)
Jewish Imagery and Eliot's Source Texts	203	(3)
Reconsidering the ``Ways'' to Identify Jews	206	(2)
Stephen Spender and the Ghetto of Venice	208	(5)
Bleistein and Klein, The Names	213	(16)
Poetic Assent and Philosophical Belief	213	(2)
Portia's Caskets and Bleistein's Name	215	(1)
Ferdinand and the ``Columbo'' Affair	216	(5)
Pleysteins, Bleisteins, Blystones and Blyths	221	(4)
George Bleistein and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	225	(4)
Princess Volupine, Venice, and John Ruskin	229	(28)
Venetian Names and Venetian Courtesans	229	(4)
The Whore of Babylon	233	(5)
Cleopatra's Burning Barge(s)	238	(3)
John Ruskin's Seven Lamps	241	(8)
Hakagawa and Others Who Burn with Slimy Lust	249	(8)
The Epigraph to ``Burbank'' : Fragment One	257	(20)
1st. Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)	258	(19)
The Epigraph: Fragments Two Through Six	277	(20)
2nd. Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506)	277	(5)
3rd. Henry James (1843-1916)	282	(2)
4th. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)	284	(2)
5th. Robert Browning (1812-1889)	286	(2)
6th. John Marston (1575?-1634)	288	(6)
Memory in the epigraph	294	(3)
The ``God-Centered'' Hippo Trilogy	297	(22)
Cross-References within a Trilogy	297	(8)
Playing with Numbers, Playing with Readers	305	(3)
Scolding the Church, Levitating the Beast	308	(11)
The Sixth Quatrain	319	(14)
On the Rialto with the Land-Rats and the Water-Rats	319	(5)
Lots of Piles and Piles of Lots	324	(2)
Slimy Lust, Slimy Venetians, the Slimy Tower of Babel	326	(3)
Venetian School, Chicago School, Viennese School	329	(4)
The Notes to the Waste Land	333	(4)
Dante as a Primary Source I	337	(32)
In Search of Dante's Allegorical David	337	(10)
Alberigo and the ``privilege'' of the Ptolomea	347	(7)
The Mean and Envious Trimmers	354	(6)
Listening to the Voice from the Temple	360	(9)
Dante as a Primary Source II	369	(14)
Augustine and the Jews	369	(5)
Prophets and Sibyls from Augustine to Michelangelo	374	(2)
Tiresias, the Sibyl of Cumae, and Sibyl Vane	376	(7)
Appendix I	383	(2)
Publication Dates for the OED Fascicles: 1884-1928	383	(1)
The Fascicles in Order of Publication: 1884-1928	384	(1)
Appendix II	385	(2)
The Chapters, Joyce's Ulysses	385	(1)
Serial Publication Dates, Ulysses Episodes	386	(1)
References	387	(10)
Index	397