<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear Jeremy, <br></div>Just browsing on the internet, I found a mention of Eliot's four-piece suit attributed to Virginia Woolf: <br>"In June 1927 Eliot was received into the Church of England, and in
November became a naturalised British citizen. Virginia Woolf writes of
Eliot "in his four-piece suit" - repressed, reserved, buttoned-up." <br>This in an article by Craig Raine in <i>The Guardian</i>. The "repressed, reserved, buttoned-up" commentary is interesting. <br>
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/06/poetry.thomasstearnseliot">http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/06/poetry.thomasstearnseliot</a><br></div>With all best <br></div>Ado Haberer<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-25 13:30 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Hawthorn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no" target="_blank">jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>This is interesting, but also
intriguing. Did the person who so described Stevens know of
Woolf's comment about Eliot, I wonder? It is possible that two
people made the same joke independently, but it seems more likely
that (as in the Hill review) Woolf is being quoted without
attribution. I am assuming that there really is no such thing as a
four-piece suit, but what do I know?<br>
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I am reminded of the skit:<br>
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And this is good old Boston,<br>
The home of the bean and the cod,<br>
Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,<br>
And the Cabots talk only to God.<br>
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In both cases you think of a measure of upper-crustedness, and
then top it.<br>
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Jeremy H<br>
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Den <a href="tel:24.02.2014%2017" value="+12402201417" target="_blank">24.02.2014 17</a>:02, skrev Adolphe Haberer:<br>
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<div>Not so rare as all that: There is a biography of Wallace
Stevens by William Pritchard entitled _The Man who Wore a
Four-Piece Suit_<br>
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See <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/books/the-man-who-wore-a-four-piece-suit.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/books/the-man-who-wore-a-four-piece-suit.html</a><br>
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Ado Haberer<br>
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Adolphe Haberer<br>
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<a href="mailto:adolphe.haberer@univ-lyon2.fr" target="_blank">adolphe.haberer@univ-lyon2.fr</a><br>
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