A Cultural Agenda for Our Time | National Affairs
Public support of art and culture was an important facet of Cold War diplomacy. It has persisted into this century, if without much direction or purpose. But now may be the time to end that complacence and consider how a particular kind of cultural a...
A Cultural Agenda for Our Time Philip Jeffery Summer 2019 One friday afternoon in November 1948, T. S. Eliot opened a new chapter in American culture policy. Eliot, just two weeks removed from winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke at the invitation of the Library of Congress on Edgar Allan Poe's significance as a poet. He derided Poe as immature and sloppy - his kindest comment was that Poe was at heart a "displaced European" - but found it significant that the French symbolist poets Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Valéry all drew extensively on Poe. Poe's careless style-over-su
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