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>> a great companion and friend left t.s. eliot. i became interested in them when i was at yale university many years ago and i can interested in the modern american poet. and it seemed natural to me to write about him, and then from him to go to tsl the it. there is often a progress and in the biography where one author leads to another so for example i've been interested in the last few years in what i call the vision which for the blonden writers they see the city as a kind of symbolic entity and imaginative, so that's why for example i've written biographies of jeffrey and william blake and thomas more. they represent the aspect of the vision tradition which although it isn't taught in the universities in this country, it is a silly and presence in the history of the country. >> those people -- the term has been sufficiently widened for almost anyone born in london or even outside for that matter for the people that have adopted. >> you said people born in london. would you? >> i would, not by the literal meaning that from where

he was responsible for t.s. eliot to come here so hi directorship of the institute gave him some way of expressing his polimatic interests. >> thank you very much. you ended your lecture by a good quotation from oppenheimer. are you suggesting in that case he was actually struggling with the dilemma of whether peace can be achieved through wars as a necessity, or whether peace should be achieved purely by peaceful means? i think he was struggling with that dile tghout his life. is that correct to say? >> i think it is fair to say, yeah. and i think there's another -- i think that's right but i think also at the forefront of the quotation is to some extent a reversal of a position he had adopted in the '30s. inspired by the hindu, the view that one sees expressed in the become of that is that oppenheimer took from it was the view that one should do one's duty. whatever that duty is. so if one is a soldier, one has a duty to toe fight. i one is a politicianing un -- so he idea was you should do your duty and leave every