Some poets [...] like Eliot, have become so aware of the huge mechanism of the past that their poems read like a scholarly conglomeration of a century’s wisdom, and are difficult to follow unless we have an intimate knowledge of Dante, the Golden Bough, and the weather-reports in Sanskrit.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Some poets [...] like Eliot, have become so aware of the huge mechanism of the past that their poems read like a scholarly conglomeration of a century’s wisdom, and are difficult to follow unless we have an intimate knowledge of Dante, the Golden Bough, and the weather-reports in Sanskrit." in the context of "Dylan Thomas, The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris edition 1985 https://archive.org/details/collectedletters0000thom_j6l8/mode/1up" to mean that wisdom is timeless.