Thomas Stearns Eliot: PoetCambridge University Press, 1994 - 387 pages A. David Moody's Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet was published to acclaim in 1979, with a successful paperback following in 1980. This carefully revised and corrected second edition, with a specially written preface and a new appendix, meets the demand for one of the classic studies of the twentieth century's best-known poet. |
Contents
The growth of the poets mind | 1 |
19051912 An individual talent | 15 |
Prufrock observed | 17 |
19121922 Shall I at least set my lands in order? | 51 |
Gerontion and the historical sense | 53 |
Tiresias transformed | 79 |
19221930 Ordina questamore o tu che mami | 113 |
The poet saved from himself | 115 |
Patriot of fire | 203 |
Afterwords | 265 |
The Poet observed | 267 |
Appendices | 299 |
A About the text of the poems | 300 |
B The drafts of The Waste Land | 310 |
C The Christian philosopher and politics between the wars | 319 |
D The secret history of Four Quartets | 327 |
Love through the lookingglass | 132 |
19311939 The Word in the desert | 161 |
The design of the drama | 163 |
Dust in sunlight | 182 |
19391945 Apocalypse | 201 |
Eliots dramatic verse | 342 |
Notes | 349 |
Notes | 351 |
Index | 379 |
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absolute action actual alienated allusion appears Ash-Wednesday Baudelaire become beginning Burnt Norton Christian civilisation Collected Poems consciousness Criterion criticism culture Dante Dante's dark dead death detached divine drafts drama dream Dry Salvages East Coker edition emotion essay expression Ezra Pound F. H. Bradley fact Family Reunion feeling final fire follow Four Quartets Gerontion give Hayward Collection historical sense Hollow Men human hyacinth garden idea ideal images immediate experience Laforgue Lancelot Andrewes light lines Little Gidding living lyric meaning merely metaphysical metaphysical poetry mind modern movement natural observe passage passion pattern philosophy phrase play poet poet's poetic poetry point of view prayer prose Prufrock Purgatory readers realised reality realm relation rhythm romantic sensibility sequence sestina simply song soul spirit stanza suffering T. S. Eliot things thought Tiresias unreal Valéry verse vision voice Waste Land whole words writing