Module 18 - Part 3: Texts and Contexts

Other parts of this module include:
Index  |  Part 1: Overview  |  Part 2: Explorations and Exercises  |  Part 4: Web Resources

The Persistence of Memory in Twentieth-Century Literature

Aesop’s fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper.
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“The Fable of the Ondt and the Gracehoper,” from the Online Shorter Finnegan’s Wake, by James Joyce.
– Link 2

D. H. Lawrence, Piano, in two versions. The second, much shorter text is the version of the poem most taught and admired.
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T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” The Sacred Wood (1920).
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