Author: James E. Miller Jr.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271033193
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Late in his life T. S. Eliot, when asked if his poetry belonged in the tradition of American literature, replied: “I’d say that my poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in England. That I’m sure of. . . . In its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America.” In T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, James Miller offers the first sustained account of Eliot’s early years, showing that the emotional springs of his poetry did indeed come from America. Miller challenges long-held assumptions about Eliot’s poetry and his life. Eliot himself always maintained that his poems were not based on personal experience, and thus should not be read as personal poems. But Miller convincingly combines a reading of the early work with careful analysis of surviving early correspondence, accounts from Eliot’s friends and acquaintances, and new scholarship that delves into Eliot’s Harvard years. Ultimately, Miller demonstrates that Eliot’s poetry is filled with reflections of his personal experiences: his relationships with family, friends, and wives; his sexuality; his intellectual and social development; his influences. Publication of T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet marks a milestone in Eliot scholarship. At last we have a balanced portrait of the poet and the man, one that takes seriously his American roots. In the process, we gain a fuller appreciation for some of the best-loved poetry of the twentieth century.
Author: James Edwin Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780271054568
Category : National characteristics, American, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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ISBN: 9780271045474
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Gertrude Patterson
Publisher: [Manchester, Eng.] : Manchester University Press ; New York : Barnes & Noble
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Looks at Eliot's poetry and his "fragmentary method" of poetry composition.
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300176457
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 913
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In two highly anticipated volumes, the correspondence of the twentieth century's eminent man of letters, from youth to early manhood
Author: Eric Whitman Sigg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521365619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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This is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex American heritage. Analysing major poems from 'Prufrock' through The Waste Land, Sigg draws upon Eliot's early philosophical writing, essays and reviews to reveal Eliot's early poetry both as a distinct entity and as a stage in his development.
Author: Eric Sigg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521110037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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In his old age T.S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest influence on his poetry. This is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex American heritage: his intellectually and socially prominent family, their strong Unitarian culture, and their experience in nineteenth-century St. Louis and Boston. Analyzing major poems from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" through The Waste Land, and drawing widely upon the early philosophical writings, essays, and reviews, Dr. Sigg shows the influence on Eliot of major American figures such as George Santayana, Henry James, and Henry Adams, as well as of the British philosopher F.H. Bradley on whom Eliot wrote a doctoral dissertation at Harvard.
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: Letters of T. S. Eliot
ISBN: 9780571316328
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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V.6: "The letters of T. S. Eliot collected in this sixth volume were written during the years the Nobel Prize-winning poet, playwright, critic, and essayist called, "the happiest I can ever remember in my life." Penned in large part during his tour of Depression Era America, these letters reflect Eliot's resolve to end his torturous eighteen-year marriage to his wife, Vivienne, and offer fascinating descriptions of the author's encounters with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, Marianne Moore, and other notable figures"--Amazon.com.
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571279643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he was received into the Church of England and naturalised as a British citizen - a radical and public alteration of the intellectual and spiritual direction of his career. The demands of Eliot's professional life as writer and editor became more complex and exacting during these years. The celebrated but financially-pressed periodical he had been editing since 1922 - The Criterion - switched between being a quarterly and a monthly, before being rescued by the fledgling house of Faber & Gwyer. In addition to writing numerous essays and editorials, lectures, reviews, introductions and prefaces, his letters show Eliot involving himself wholeheartedly in the business of his new career as a publisher. His Ariel poems, Journey of the Magi (1927) and A Song for Simeon (1928) established a new manner and vision for the poet of The Waste Land and 'The Hollow Men'. These are also the years in which Eliot published two sections of an exhilaratingly funny, savage, jazz-influenced play-in-verse - 'Fragment of a Prologue' and 'Fragment of an Agon' - which were subsequently brought together as Sweeney Agonistes. In addition, he struggled to translate the remarkable work Anabase, by St.-John Perse, which was to be a signal influence upon his own later poetry. This correspondence with friends and mentors vividly documents all the stages of Eliot's personal and artistic transformation during these crucial years, the continuing anxieties of his private life, and the forging of his public reputation.
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535313971
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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T.S. Eliot was an American-born British poet, playwright, and social critic. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock earned Eliot fame as it was considered one of the greatest poems of the Modernist movement. This collection includes the following: POETRY: The Wasteland (a collection of 5 poems) Over 30 other poems SHORT STORY: Eeldrop and Appleplex ESSAYS: Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry The Sacred Wood: (a collection of essays on poetry and criticism)
