The Cambridge companion to T.S. Eliot / edited by A. David Moody.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moody, Anthony David, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Eliot, T. S.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays from several distinct points of view. The major aspects and issues of his life and thought are assessed: his American origins and his becoming English; his position as a philosopher; his literary, social, and political criticism; and the evolution of his religious sense. Later chapters place his work in a number of historical perspectives; and the final chapter provides an expert review of the whole field of Eliot studies and is supplemented by a listing of the most significant publications. There is a useful chronological outline. Taken as a whole, the Companion comprises an essential handbook for students and other readers of Eliot.

Contents:

Where is the real T.S. Eliot? or, the life of the poet / James Olney

Eliot as a product of America / Eric Sigg

Eliot as philosopher / Richard Shusterman

T.S. Eliot's critical program / Timothy Materer

The Social critic and his discontents / Peter Dale Scott

Religion, literature, and society in the work of T.S. Eliot / Cleo McNelly Kearns

"England and nowhere" / Alan Marshall

Early poems: from "Prufrock" to "Gerontion" / J.C.C. Mays

Improper desire: reading The Waste land / Harriet Davidson

Ash-Wednesday: a poetry of verification / John Kwan-Terry

Four quartets: music, word, meaning and value / A. David Moody

Pereira and after: the cures of Eliot's theater / Robin Grove

"Mature poets steal": Eliot's allusive practice / James Longenbach

Eliot's impact on twentieth-century Anglo-American poetry / Charles Altieri

Tradition and T.S. Eliot / Jean-Michel Rabaté

Eliot: modernism, postmodernism, and after / Bernard Sharratt

Eliot studies: a review and a select booklist / Jewel Spears Brooker.

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