The Genius Of T.S. Eliot Contributed Immensely In Ushering Modernism In Poetry, Play And Literary Criticism. Therefore, Our Knowledge Of Modernism Will Remain Incomplete Should We Fail To Understand Eliot. This Book May Serve As An Introduction To Eliot, The Man, The Poet, The Playwright And The Critic. For The Benefit Of Readers, It Quotes In Full, While Introducing And Explaining, The Poet S Master-Pieces, The Waste Land And Four Quartets, And Also Some Of His Other Great Poems. Further, It Discusses About All Of His Five Major Plays, And Nine Important Essays, At Some Length.
Otherwise such borrowings can only be considered as integral parts of Eliot's poems , deriving their meaning from them . To interpret such borrowings by their original context is the surest way to discover that Eliot does not write ...
The other remaining student , E. R. Dodds ( later , Professor of Greek at Oxford ) , found Eliot reserved but ' seriously interested in mystical experience ' . Dodds invited him to a group called The Coterie where men read their poems ...
Provides a biography of American poet T.S. Eliot along with critical views of his work.
6 See Grover Smith , T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays , p . 130 . 7 For Lancelot Andrewes , p . 17 . 8 Conrad Aiken , Selected Letters ( New Haven and London , 1978 ) , p . 185 ; quoted in Ronald Bush , T. S. Eliot : a Study in Character ...
Matthew Arnold; . The Influence of Science—Darwinism in T. H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer; . Art and Economics—John Ruskin and William Morris.” The second category was entitled “The Development of English Poetry” (nos.
This brilliantly allusive and gracefully written study is focused on T. S. Eliot's developing commitment to Christianity, but the essay is by no means procrustean or reductive in its strategies, nor is it theological.
Thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in generalization,” “appreciations of individual authors,” and “social and religious criticism”- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliot’s original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill...
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.
The state of the hollow men , " In this hollow valley / This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms " ( lines 55—56 ) , mirrors the spiritual paralysis described by Henry Adams : " The American people ... were wandering in a wilderness much ...
The sea has many voices , Many gods and many voices . The salt is on the briar rose , The fog is in the fir trees . The sea howl And the sea yelp , are different voices Often together heard : the whine in the rigging , The menace and ...