The Sunday Telegraph London, October 9th, 2005
POSSUM, of course, was T.S. Eliot himself. The name was bestowed on him by the one he called, more sonorously, Il miglior fabbro: Ezra Pound. It derived from a private game the two poets had, in which they would talk in "Uncle Remus'' slang, Brer Possum being one of the Remus characters. Pound's letters to Eliot are usually written in this manner, even when discussing Sophocles and Sextus Propertius. A t...
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