in Eliot's The Waste Land there is this one line "When lovely woman stoops to folly" that is taken from Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. in the notes section it says that Eliot was trying to juxtapose eighteenth-century refinementand modern sensuality. What does this mean? Where can I research this topic?
What does it mean to juxtapose 18th century refinement and modern sensuality?
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