T. S. Eliot / Craig Raine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raine, Craig.

Series:

Lives and Legacies

Lives and legacies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Critics--United States--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet--forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. Now, in this brilliant exploration of T.S. Eliot's work, prize-winning poet Craig Raine reveals that, on the contrary, Eliot's poetry (and drama and criticism) can be seen as a unified and coherent body of work. Indeed, despite its manifest originality, its radical experimentation, and its dazzling formal variety, his verse yields meaning just as surely

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; Introduction: ELIOT AND THE BURIED LIFE; One: THE FAILURE TO LIVE; Two: ELIOT AS CLASSICIST: THE ENQUIRY INTO FEELINGS; Three: THE WASTE LAND; Four: FOUR QUARTETS; Five: THE DRAMA; Six: THE CRITICISM; Appendix 1 ELIOT AND ANTI-SEMITISM; Appendix 2 TWO FREE TRANSLATIONS BY CRAIG RAINE OF 'LUNE DE MIEL' AND 'DANS LE RESTAURANT'; Appendix 3 AN ELIOT CHRONOLOGY; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-84682-8

0-19-534555-X

1-4294-5945-X

OCLC:

99264737