Author: Jason Harding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500155
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
T. S. Eliot's work demands much from his readers. The more the reader knows about his allusions and range of cultural reference, the more rewarding are his poems, essays and plays. This book is carefully designed to provide an authoritative and coherent examination of those contexts essential to the fullest understanding of his challenging and controversial body of work. It explores a broad range of subjects relating to Eliot's life and career; key literary, intellectual, social and historical contexts; as well as the critical reception of his oeuvre. Taken together, these chapters sharpen critical appreciation of Eliot's writings and present a comprehensive, composite portrait of one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent men of letters. Drawing on original research, T. S. Eliot in Context is a timely contribution to an exciting reassessment of Eliot's life and works, and will provide a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, students and general readers.
T. S. Eliot in Context
Author: Jason Harding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500155
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
T. S. Eliot's work demands much from his readers. The more the reader knows about his allusions and range of cultural reference, the more rewarding are his poems, essays and plays. This book is carefully designed to provide an authoritative and coherent examination of those contexts essential to the fullest understanding of his challenging and controversial body of work. It explores a broad range of subjects relating to Eliot's life and career; key literary, intellectual, social and historical contexts; as well as the critical reception of his oeuvre. Taken together, these chapters sharpen critical appreciation of Eliot's writings and present a comprehensive, composite portrait of one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent men of letters. Drawing on original research, T. S. Eliot in Context is a timely contribution to an exciting reassessment of Eliot's life and works, and will provide a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, students and general readers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139500155
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
T. S. Eliot's work demands much from his readers. The more the reader knows about his allusions and range of cultural reference, the more rewarding are his poems, essays and plays. This book is carefully designed to provide an authoritative and coherent examination of those contexts essential to the fullest understanding of his challenging and controversial body of work. It explores a broad range of subjects relating to Eliot's life and career; key literary, intellectual, social and historical contexts; as well as the critical reception of his oeuvre. Taken together, these chapters sharpen critical appreciation of Eliot's writings and present a comprehensive, composite portrait of one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent men of letters. Drawing on original research, T. S. Eliot in Context is a timely contribution to an exciting reassessment of Eliot's life and works, and will provide a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, students and general readers.
Discovering Modernism
Author: Louis Menand
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199774714
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism. Menand shows how Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity, and his later repudiation of those views, reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. It will prove an eye-opening study for readers with an interest in the writings of T.S. Eliot and other luminaries of the Modernist era.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199774714
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism. Menand shows how Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity, and his later repudiation of those views, reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. It will prove an eye-opening study for readers with an interest in the writings of T.S. Eliot and other luminaries of the Modernist era.
T.S. Eliot
Author: Colin MacCabe
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN: 0746310544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
T.S. Eliots's life took him from the United States to England, from philosophy to poetry and from modern scepticism to traditional Christianity. Colin MacCabe's study places Eliot's poetry in the context of these journeys and uses Eliot's life to illuminate his poetry. This poetry, although very modest in quantity, remains one of the great artistic triumphs of the English language. In his ironic accounts of adolescent desire in 'The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock' and 'Portrait of a Lady', he performs masculine self-doubt with a pathos and wit that has yet to be surpassed in poem, book or song. But these early poems can seem like mere exercises beside the astonishing achievements of 'Gerontion' and 'The Wasteland', poems which defined a generation and which broke the mould in English verse to allow a symphony of despairing voices to bear witness to the destruction in Europe. Finally, in 'Four Quartets' he forges an original form and a compelling tone to hymn both religious belief and national destiny
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN: 0746310544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
T.S. Eliots's life took him from the United States to England, from philosophy to poetry and from modern scepticism to traditional Christianity. Colin MacCabe's study places Eliot's poetry in the context of these journeys and uses Eliot's life to illuminate his poetry. This poetry, although very modest in quantity, remains one of the great artistic triumphs of the English language. In his ironic accounts of adolescent desire in 'The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock' and 'Portrait of a Lady', he performs masculine self-doubt with a pathos and wit that has yet to be surpassed in poem, book or song. But these early poems can seem like mere exercises beside the astonishing achievements of 'Gerontion' and 'The Wasteland', poems which defined a generation and which broke the mould in English verse to allow a symphony of despairing voices to bear witness to the destruction in Europe. Finally, in 'Four Quartets' he forges an original form and a compelling tone to hymn both religious belief and national destiny
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674931503
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot invites us to "start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it does or ought to do, or of what use it is; and try to find out, in examining the relation of poetry to criticism, what the use of both of them is."
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674931503
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot invites us to "start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it does or ought to do, or of what use it is; and try to find out, in examining the relation of poetry to criticism, what the use of both of them is."
T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions
Author: Cleo McNelly Kearns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521324397
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521324397
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.
T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form
Author: Anthony Julius
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521586733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Julius's critically acclaimed study (looking both at the detail of Eliot's deployment of anti-Semitic discourse and at the role it played in his greater literary undertaking) has provoked a reassessment of Eliot's work among poets, scholars, critics and readers, which will invigorate debate for some time to come.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521586733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Julius's critically acclaimed study (looking both at the detail of Eliot's deployment of anti-Semitic discourse and at the role it played in his greater literary undertaking) has provoked a reassessment of Eliot's work among poets, scholars, critics and readers, which will invigorate debate for some time to come.
Poems
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A collection of poems, some of which had first appeared in Poetry, Blas, Others, The Little Review, and Arts and Letters.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A collection of poems, some of which had first appeared in Poetry, Blas, Others, The Little Review, and Arts and Letters.
George Eliot in Context
Author: Margaret Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521764084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
George Eliot's literary achievement is explored through essays on its historical, intellectual, political and social contexts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521764084
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
George Eliot's literary achievement is explored through essays on its historical, intellectual, political and social contexts.
T. S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition
Author: Giovanni Cianci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521121439
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
T. S. Eliot's reformulation of the idea of literary tradition has been one of the key critical concepts of the twentieth century. In this reappraisal of tradition, an international team of scholars explores the concept from a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives, including a series of illuminating case studies evaluating Eliot's version of tradition alongside the theories of other major twentieth-century critics. This 2007 volume will be of great interest to students of literary theory, modernist studies and intellectual history, initiating a dialogue between Continental and Anglo-American investigations into the nature of literary traditions. Tradition is a concept often viewed by contemporary critics with misunderstanding or even hostility. This book powerfully reaffirms the continuing importance of our artistic and cultural traditions in shaping the past and creating the future.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521121439
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
T. S. Eliot's reformulation of the idea of literary tradition has been one of the key critical concepts of the twentieth century. In this reappraisal of tradition, an international team of scholars explores the concept from a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives, including a series of illuminating case studies evaluating Eliot's version of tradition alongside the theories of other major twentieth-century critics. This 2007 volume will be of great interest to students of literary theory, modernist studies and intellectual history, initiating a dialogue between Continental and Anglo-American investigations into the nature of literary traditions. Tradition is a concept often viewed by contemporary critics with misunderstanding or even hostility. This book powerfully reaffirms the continuing importance of our artistic and cultural traditions in shaping the past and creating the future.
T.S. Eliot
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: H. Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher: H. Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description