Selected prose of T. S. Eliot / edited with an introduction by Frank Kermode.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Contributor:

Kermode, Frank, 1919-2010.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

English prose literature--20th century.

English prose literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

320 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1975]

Contents:

I. Literary Criticism. Essays of Generalization. Before 1918: Reflections on Vers Libre (1917); 1918-1930: Tradition and the individual talent (1919); Hamlet (1919); The perfect critic (1920); The metaphysical poets (1921); The function of criticism (1923). 1930-1965: from Preface to Anabasis (1930); from The use of poetry and the use of criticism (1933); Religion and literature (1935); from The music of poetry (1942); What is a classic? (1944); Poetry and drama (1951). Appreciations of Individual Authors. Before 1918: from Ezra Pound: His metric and poetry (1917); from Henry James (1918). 1918-1930: from Philip Massinger (1920); Andre Marvell (1921); Marie Lloyd (1922); Ulysses, order, and myth (1923); Lancelot Andrewes (1926); from Thomas Middleton (1927); Francis Herbert Bradley (1927); Dante (1929). 1930-1965: from Baudelaire (1930); from The Pensées of Pascal (1931); In Memoriam (1936); Yeats (1940); Milton I (1936); from Milton II (1947)

II. Social and Religious Criticism. The humanism of Irving Babbitt (1928); from The Idea of a Christian Society (1939); from Notes towards the definition of culture (1948).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok Jerusalem 1976".

ISBN:

0151807027 :

OCLC:

1847345