I hear that as the stage-American voice he used to adopt when writing to Pound -- the only other place in his poetry I can think he uses 'guy' is in the cancelled opening to The Waste Land, which seems to take place on a drunken night out in Boston...
I'm sure you're right, but it isn't as if the letter was written in Broad Scots or even exaggerated US dialect. "Haha, as a joke, I, T. S. Eliot, will write to you, Ezra Pound, as if I were one American writing a letter to another American!"
I can’t believe that Eliot came so close to calling somebody a “guy” (in a letter, "The Hollow Men" doesn't count)
I hear that as the stage-American voice he used to adopt when writing to Pound -- the only other place in his poetry I can think he uses 'guy' is in the cancelled opening to The Waste Land, which seems to take place on a drunken night out in Boston...
I'm sure you're right, but it isn't as if the letter was written in Broad Scots or even exaggerated US dialect. "Haha, as a joke, I, T. S. Eliot, will write to you, Ezra Pound, as if I were one American writing a letter to another American!"