It seems Woolf was primarily a horrid snob, and a racist only secondarily. Eliot was of the monied classes, and I don't think "yanks" from that "great colony" were particularly opposed (though America was seen as a wild and often lawless place, which was true). Whereas Joyce was working class. The horror. He was also Irish, and the combination would certainly have qualified him as a "mick", a group universally biased against in all levels of English society.
Wasn't Woolf involved with Bloomsbury who were all banging each other? I supposed they were doing opium and coke too. Woohoo! Sadly none of this translated into books that I find tolerable.
Now, Eliot, that's another matter...it seems even the Americans are capable of great works, on occasion
Mind you, Eliot saw the light and became a British citizen. I heard a recording of him reading poetry, and he demonstrated a polite British accent. Pound should have move to London.
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A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
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It took an American-born to sum up London commuting exactly.