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T.S. Eliot is too often a neurotic writer of the "precious" school, begetting muddled mystical nonsense. His reputation is overrated partly because of the portentous air he gives himself and partly because he is sufficiently incomprehensible to put himself out of the herd. But in The Cocktail Party, where he leaves verse for playwriting, he rises to a truly superior and truly mystical level.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 52