Anti-Semitism issue slows British fund for Eliot
 
“...Emanuel Litvinoff, a poet now in his 70's who wrote a poem in 1951 that attacked Eliot as anti-Semitic, said over the telephone today: ''I don't see any reason why there shouldn't be a centenary honoring T. S. Eliot. He was one of the great poets of the century. But he was also anti-Semitic. In 1948, after Auschwitz, after everything that had happened, he allowed his anti-Semitic poems to be published in a selected edition of his poems. It was grossly insensitive, really appalling. When he wrote about Jews he used a small j. It's an individual's choice to lend themselves to a fund-raising effort, but I wouldn't.''  Read more at the New York Times websitehttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3DD163DF93AA3575BC0A96E948260shapeimage_2_link_0
Tuesday, 9 August 1988