More or less simultaneously with Cavafy, TS Eliot relive the same scene, no longer in Alexandria, but not explicitly in Venice and taking Plutarch, but Shakespeare, in his poetry, with Burbank a Baedeker, Bleistein with a cigar , of \u200b\u200bwhich I transcribe the first part of the original:
BURBANK crossed a little bridge
Descending at a small hotel;
Princess Volupine goodbye,
They Were together, and he fell.
defunct music under sea
Passed seaward with the passing bell
Slowly: the God Hercules Had left
HIM That HAD HIM well loved.
The horses, under the axletree
Beat up the dawn from Istria With even feet
. Her shuttered barge Burned on the water
to the day.
(...)
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