T. S. Eliot: A Voice Descanting


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Using a variety of approaches from the traditional to the post-modern, this volume brings together essays by 14 scholars who examine T.S.Eliot's poetry and criticism. These essays were written and edited on the occasion of Eliot's birth centenary.




T. S. Eliot: A Voice Descanting


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Using a variety of approaches from the traditional to the post-modern, this volume brings together essays by 14 scholars who examine T.S.Eliot's poetry and criticism. These essays were written and edited on the occasion of Eliot's birth centenary.




The Dry Salvages


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From Philosophy to Poetry


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Eliot is the rare case of a great poet who was also an academic philosopher and Professor Child's study examines the relationship between his writing of poetry and his philosophical pursuits, in particular his lifelong occupation with the work of F. H. Bradley, Henri Bergson and William James. This account also considers the reception of Eliot's writing in philosophy and argues that the study of this work has significantly entered recent Eliot criticism. Overall, this volume provides a new reading of Eliot's famous poems, his literary criticism and social commentary.




Delphi Complete Poetical Works of T. S. Eliot (Illustrated)


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An American-English poet, playwright and influential literary critic, T. S. Eliot was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry, producing important works such as ‘The Waste Land’ and ‘Four Quartets’. His work exerted a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920’s until late on in the century. His experiments in diction, style and versification helped revitalise English poetry, while his critical essays challenged old orthodoxies and forged new approaches. Eliot was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Eliot’s complete poetical and dramatic works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Eliot’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * The complete poetry * Excellent formatting of the poems * Rare poems often missed out of collections * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * The complete plays * Includes a wide selection of Eliot’s prose, including all the seminal essays * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) Poems, 1920 The Waste Land (1922) The Hollow Men (1925) Ash Wednesday (1930) Ariel Poems (1927-1954) Coriolan (1931) Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) Contributions to ‘The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross’ (1939) Four Quartets (1943) Miscellaneous Verses The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Plays The Rock (1934) Murder in the Cathedral (1935) The Family Reunion (1939) The Cocktail Party (1949) The Confidential Clerk (1953) The Elder Statesman (1959) The Prose Eeldrop and Appleplex (1917) Ezra Pound (1918) The Sacred Wood (1920) Homage to John Dryden (1924) The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge (1926) Dante (1929) Thoughts after Lambeth (1931) Selected Essays (1932) The Turnbull Lectures at the Johns Hopkins University (1933) Elizabethan Essays (1934) Essays Ancient and Modern (1936) Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) Introduction to ‘All Hallows’ Eve’ (1948) by Charles Williams Introduction to ‘Pascal’s Pensées’ (1958)




Four Quartets


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The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.




T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination


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How is a poem made? From what constellation of inner and outer worlds does it issue forth? Sarah Kennedy's study of Eliot's poetics seeks out those images most striking in their resonance and recurrence: the 'sea-change', the 'light invisible' and the 'dark ghost'. She makes the case for these sustained metaphors as constitutive of the poet's imagination and art. Eliot was haunted by recurrence. His work is full of moments of luminous recognitions, moments in which a writer discovers both subject and appropriate image. This book examines such moments of recognition and invocation by reference to three clusters of imagery, drawing on the contemporary languages of literary criticism, psychology, physics and anthropology. Eliot's transposition of these registers, at turns wary and beguiled, interweaves modern understandings of originary processes in the human and natural world with a poet's preoccupation with language. The metaphors arising from these intersections generate the imaginative logic of Eliot's poetry.




The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry


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Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s. Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry. Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.




Inventions of the March Hare


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Presents over fifty poems written by the author in his twenties, including early drafts of famous poems, and extensive critical notes on the works.




Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty


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This book describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the twentieth century – Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf – wrestled with a geopolitical situation in which national boundaries had come to seem increasingly permeable at the same time as war among (and within) individual nation-states had come to seem virtually inescapable. Drawing on Jean-François Lyotard's analysis of the elements of performativity in J.L. Austin's speech act theory, and making critical use of Carl Schmitt’s writings on sovereignty and world order, Miller situates the writings of Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf in the context of what Lyotard describes as a "civil war of language." By virtue of its dissolution of any clear boundary between "interiority" and "exteriority," as well as by virtue of its resistance to any decisive form of resolution or regulation, this "civil war of language" takes on dimensions that are ultimately global in scope. Miller examines the emergence of modernism as bound up with a crisis of personal, political, and aesthetic sovereignty that undermined traditional distinctions between the public and private. In the process, he directly engages with the theoretical discourse surrounding the geopolitical impact of globalization and biopolitics: a discourse that is central to the influential and widely-debated work of such varied figures as Carl Schmitt, Hardt and Negri, Giorgio Agamben, and Jean-Luc Nancy. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned not only with twentieth-century literature but also with questions of nationalism and globalization.