Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot was also extremely prolific. T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews is a testament to both these aspects of Eliot's work. In it, Jewel Spears Brooker presents the most comprehensive gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of Eliot's work ever assembled. It includes reviews from both American and British journals. Brooker expands on the major themes of the reviews and shows how the reviews themselves influenced not only Eliot, but also literary history in the twentieth century.
30 Within the circle of my brain: Hamlet I v: “Within the book and volume of my brain” (six lines after “globe”). ... looked upon the altar, and its horns | Whitened with ashes, and its languorous flame”, The Fall of Hyperion I 237–38.
The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliot’s most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning volume, now with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.
... lurking in the second movement of 'Little Gidding'.17 The spectral meeting with the 'familiar compound ghost' (CPP, 193) is a literary haunting, acknowledging in 'compound' a Dantean debt to Ezra Pound – 'il miglior fabbro' (CPP, ...
In two highly anticipated volumes, the correspondence of the twentieth century's eminent man of letters, from youth to early manhood
The heart of the book contains extended analyses of Eliot's two master works--The Waste Land and Four Quartets.
Here is a clear and consistent view of Eliot's entire career as poet, critic, playwright, and social commentator that gives us a new understanding of each state of his development....
This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. Other volumes in this series: Auden, Betjemen, Plath, Hughes and Yeats.
... curiosity The more delicate algae and the sea anemone . It tosses up our losses , the torn seine , The shattered lobsterpot , the broken oar And the gear of foreign dead men . The sea has many voices , Many gods and many voices .
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry. In this book: Poems The Waste Land Prufrock and Other Observations Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
This fifth volume of the collected letters of poet, playwright, essayist, and literary critic Thomas Stearns Eliot covers the years 1930 through 1931.