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At 100, at 125 – George Monteiro
Comunidades 22 nov, 2013, 18:59

At 100, at 125 – George Monteiro

<div><br /></div> <div><br /></div> Dear Irene,  <br />Let me try out this <i>jeu d'esprit</i> on you. I started out to commemorate Vinicius' 100th birthday on the 19th. The emergence of Eliot in the poem was something that caught me by surprise. <br />I was raised to respond always with awe and unquestioning respect for Eliot's towering achievement. But I was older then (to borrow a thought from Bob Dylan), I'm so much younger now. <br />In any case, I'll be happy to know what you think. <div>Best,<br />  <div>George</div> <div><br /></div> <div><br /></div> <div><br /></div> <div><br /></div> <div><br /></div> </div>

(Vinicius de Moraes, October 19, 1913 – July 9, 1980)

At 100, at 125

T. S. Eliot was 25 when Vinicius was born,

which makes Vinicius a late or second-generation

modernist. Who would you rather be, the querulous sybil

of The Waste Land or the burly enunciator of “Porque hoje

é sábado”? The progenitor of Prufrock’s self-sorrow or

the seaside chope drinker who bleats his complaint?

This is a not a test. It is, though, a no-brainer.

October 14, 2013

George Monteiro is a lifelong student and teacher of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, contributing to the scholarship on numerous writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and Bob Dylan. His latest book is Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed (McFarland, 2012).

Image from: http://bibliotecaucs.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/toda-a-poesia-de-vinicius-de-moraes-na-internet/
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