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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Meyers, Jeffrey

Titel

T. S. Eliot's green face powder: a mystery solved

Ist Teil von

• Yeats Eliot review, 2011-09, Vol.28 (3-4), p.33

Ort / Verlag

Eureka Springs: Murphy Newsletter Services

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 2 Five years later Osbert Sitwell could scarcely believe that the self-effacing Eliot had actually tinted himself: "I was amazed to notice on his cheeks a dusting of green powder - pale but distinctly green, the colour of a forced lily-of-the-valley. 1 was all the more amazed at this discovery, because any deliberate dramatization of his appearance was so plainly out of keeping with his character, and with his desire never to call attention to himself." ' "6 In his study of Max Beerbohm (1972), John Felstiner observed that cosmetics had been condemned by satirists, from Juvenal to Pope, as a frivolous artifice suitable for the demimonde of actresses and whores, dandies and sexual deviants. "8 Max Beerbohm's "A Defence of Cosmetics," which appeared in the first number of the Yellow Book (April 1 894), echoed Baudelaire's allusion to the infinite and gave a paradoxical and ironic twist to his theory: "the era of rouge is upon us, and as only in an elaborate era can man, by the tangled accrescency of his own pleasures and emotions reach that refinement which is his highest excellence, and by making himself, so to say, independent of Nature, come nearest to God. ..