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Word Unheard A Guide Through Eliot's Four Quartets

Word Unheard: A Guide Through Eliot's Four Quartets

1st Edition

By Harry Blamires
November 08, 2017

Eliot’s Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by guiding the reader line by line through the poem, ...

T. S. Eliot and the Romantic Critical Tradition

T. S. Eliot and the Romantic Critical Tradition

1st Edition

By Edward Lobb
May 23, 2017

Edward Lobb’s study, first published in 1981, is a thorough examination of Eliot’s relation to Romantic criticism. This title also makes extensive use of Eliot’s Clark Lectures on metaphysical poetry. Delivered in 1926, the lectures complete the picture of literary history set out in Eliot’s ...

Poetry and Belief in the Work of T. S. Eliot

Poetry and Belief in the Work of T. S. Eliot

1st Edition

By Kristian Smidt
May 17, 2017

This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot’s works have originated. This study examines the influences of Eliot’s work, and includes Eliot’s personal views as told to the author. The book also looks at technique, structure ...

T. S. Eliot A Friendship

T. S. Eliot: A Friendship

1st Edition

By E. W. F. Tomlin
May 17, 2017

First published in 1988. Fredrick Tomlin and T. S. Eliot were friends for almost thirty-four years. What emerges from Fredrick Tomlin’s memories and the many letters which passed between them is a private Eliot, seen only by his closest family and a trusted few. Tomlin evokes the man as he was – ...

T. S. Eliot Between Two Worlds A Reading of T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays

T. S. Eliot Between Two Worlds: A Reading of T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays

1st Edition

By David Ward
May 17, 2017

The basis of this critical examination of Eliot’s work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse. This book focuses on Eliot’s peculiar eclectic approach to what he described...

T. S. Eliot's Romantic Dilemma Tradition's Anti-Traditional Elements

T. S. Eliot's Romantic Dilemma: Tradition's Anti-Traditional Elements

1st Edition

By Eugenia M. Gunner
May 17, 2017

The fact that Eliot disapproved of Romanticism is clear from his critical essays, where he often appears to reject it absolutely. However, Eliot’s understanding of the term and his appreciation of literature developed and altered greatly from his adolescence to his years of scholarly study, yet he ...

The Poetry of T. S. Eliot

The Poetry of T. S. Eliot

1st Edition

By Kristian Smidt
May 17, 2017

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot’s poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments. This study traces Eliot’s style from the earliest poems to the Quartets, and examines the characteristics of ...

The Waste Land

The Waste Land

1st Edition

By Grover Smith
May 17, 2017

In this study, first published in 1983, Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous in form to a musical composition that it is actually made of its literary echoes. He calls these a ‘music of allusions’ and shows the resemblance of this music in its evocativeness ...

Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry Richest to the Richest

Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry: Richest to the Richest

1st Edition

By Cairns Craig
May 17, 2017

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s. ...

The English Eliot Design, Language and Landscape in Four Quartets

The English Eliot: Design, Language and Landscape in Four Quartets

1st Edition

By Steve Ellis
March 15, 2017

This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot’s writings of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly Four Quartets, and attempts to disprove the widespread belief in Eliot’s unproblematic commitment to England, and the ‘Englishness’. The book traces Eliot’s ...

Routledge Library Editions: T. S. Eliot

Routledge Library Editions: T. S. Eliot

1st Edition

By Various
December 02, 2015

This set reissues 10 books on T. S. Eliot originally published between 1952 and 1991. The volumes examine many of Eliot’s most respected works, including his Four Quartets and The Waste Land. As well as exploring Eliot’s work, this collection also provides a comprehensive analysis of the man behind...

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