The first authoritative collection of Eliot's poetry, edited by Eliot himself in 1962 and containing all the poetry through that time that he wished to preserve. As a poet, Eliot was constantly in search of new forms, and he found his voice in a combination of precise imagery, ironic wit, and the juxtaposition of disparate elements presented ...
As a poet, Eliot was constantly in search of new forms, and he found his voice in a combination of precise imagery, ironic wit, and the juxtaposition of disparate elements presented without explanation of their relationship to each other. His poetry is also significant for the way in which it refers to past works of literature, history, and ...
Eliot's most famous play, a poetic religious drama based on the murder of Thomas à Becket, was commissioned for the 1935 Canterbury Festival. It used ritualistic devices to dramatize the murder, among them a chorus and a long set-piece sermon delivered by Becket at the climax of the play.
This is one of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. In the four parts of this book of poetry - "Burnt Norton", "East Coker", "The Dry Salvages" and "Little Gidding" - T.S. Eliot conducts a rigorous meditation on the ...
As a poet, Eliot was constantly in search of new forms, and he found his voice in a combination of precise imagery, ironic wit, and the juxtaposition of disparate elements presented without explanation of their relationship to each other. His poetry is also significant for the way in which it refers to past works of literature, history, and ...
When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of "The Waste Land, " one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved. The mansucript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot's friend and adviser, ...
For this volume Eliot gathered together his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917, when he became assistant-editor of "The Egoist". In his preface to the third edition (1951) he described the book as an historical record of his interests and opinions.
T.S. Eliot's early, unpublished poetry, including bawdy verse, outtakes from "Prufrock", and drafts of some of his well-known works. Includes commentary by the editor and by Eliot himself--from letters, interviews, and essays.
Eliot was an influential critic; his criticism illuminated both the work of his literary predecessors and his own poetic aims. He fervently believed that it is essential for poets to reunite the two strands of human experience--rationality and emotion--which had, he felt, been dissociated in English poetry since the time of Donne and other 17th ...
Eliot's major work, "The Wasteland", was controversial when it appeared in 1922. Considered both obscure and radical, it utilizes a combination of modern slang and ancient myth, arcane literary allusion and jazzy modernity. Eliot also included helpful but pedantic footnotes. However, the poem is lyrical and hypnotic, and its collage-like mode is, ...
Eliot was an influential critic; his criticism illuminated both the work of his literary predecessors and his own poetic aims. He fervently believed that it is essential for poets to reunite the two strands of human experience--rationality and emotion--which had, he felt, been dissociated in English poetry since the time of Donne and other 17th ...
First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, ...
The return of a classic: This biography of the young James Joyce is "a remarkable exposition of the relationship between a famous man and [his] brother. "-T. S. Eliot. . Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, ...
This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it as "a piece of writing of the same importance ...
A modern verse play that touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. "Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precise.... He has achieved complete mastery of words" (Kirkus Reviews). "It is a wise, witty, elegant play whose characters speak finely and shrewdly" (Chicago Sunday Tribune).
This first volume of Eliot's correspondence covers his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, when he married and settled in England. The contents have been assembled by his widow, Valerie, from collections, libraries, and private sources worldwide. Published on the centenary of Eliot's birth.
While a student at Harvard in the early years of this century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets later led Eliot, as a poet and critic in London, to formulate an original theory of the poetry generally ...
Featuring rare archival recordings of the featured poet reading his own work, each program in this series is accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy.
The 1932-33 Norton Lectures are among the best and most important of Eliot's critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it ...
Remastered, redesigned, and repackaged. Listen as this Nobel Prize-winning poet/playwright performs two of his masterpieces: "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets."
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