“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.” WritingTalentGeniusTseliotDjunabarnes Book:Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960 Source: Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960
“It [The Great Gatsby] has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years....it seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James.” BookLiteratureFscottfitzgeraldScottfitzgeraldThegreatgatsbyTseliot Author:T. S. Eliot