Too bright a stanza
In the first two drafts of this poem, this stanza about the typist is followed by by another stanza:
"A bright kimono wraps her as she sprawls
In nerveless torpor on the window seat;
A touch of art give by the false
Japanese print purchased in Oxford Street"(V. Eliot 45).
Here, Pound wrote in the margin, "?not in that lodging house?"(V. Eliot 45), pointing out that this stanza did not fit the mood of the following and preceding stanzas. Subsequently, Eliot removed the stanza.
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"A bright kimono wraps her as she sprawls
In nerveless torpor on the window seat;
A touch of art give by the false
Japanese print purchased in Oxford Street"(V. Eliot 45).
Here, Pound wrote in the margin, "?not in that lodging house?"(V. Eliot 45), pointing out that this stanza did not fit the mood of the following and preceding stanzas. Subsequently, Eliot removed the stanza.
This website the work of Abigail L. Bunting