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This poet contrasted Grishkin, who distills “a feline smell,” with John Webster, who “saw the skull beneath the skin.” This poet wrote that a new work of art modifies “existing monuments” in an essay advocating for authors to learn literary history. A reference to Shakespeare in the line “The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne” appears in one of this (20[1])author’s (20[1])(*) footnotes. That poem by this author quotes Baudelaire in its (10[1])description (10[1])of an “Unreal City (10[2])under (10[2])the brown (10[3])fog (10[1])of a (10[1])winter dawn.” This poet repeated the Sanskrit word (10[2])“shantih” (10[11])to end (10[4])the (10[1])“What the Thunder Said” section of a poem (10[1])he dedicated to Ezra Pound. (10[1])For 10 points, name this (10[1])modernist poet of “The Waste Land.” ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: T. S. Eliot (The unnamed works are “Whispers of Immortality” and “Tradition and the Individual Talent.”)
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