In his old age T.S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest influence on his poetry. This is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex American heritage: his intellectually and socially prominent family, their strong Unitarian culture, and their experience in nineteenth-century St. Louis and Boston. Analyzing major poems from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" through The Waste Land, and drawing widely upon the early philosophical writings, essays, and reviews, Dr. Sigg shows the influence on Eliot of major American figures such as George Santayana, Henry James, and Henry Adams, as well as of the British philosopher F.H. Bradley on whom Eliot wrote a doctoral dissertation at Harvard.
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"Sigg's subtly argued, well-conceived study fills a glaring gap that has existed in Eliot studies for some time. He not only offers a sensitive portrayal of a poet and his work, but forces us to reevaluate Eliot's relationship to his native tradition. It is an indispensable book." Richard Badenhausen, Modern Language Studies
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This is the first book to explore in detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against his complex American heritage. Analysing major poems from 'Prufrock' through The Waste Land, Sigg draws upon Eliot's early philosophical writing, essays and reviews to reveal Eliot's early poetry both as a distinct entity and as a stage in his development.
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The primary channel of transmission of culture is the family: no man wholly escapes from the kind, or wholly surpasses the degree, of culture which he acquired from his early environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aestheticist writers, finite centres, quatrain poems, untitled chapter, genteel writers, relational consciousness, homo duplex, sordid images, natural sin, metaphysical poets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Henry Adams, Henry James, United States, Cooking Egg, The Education, New York, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, Italian Hours, The Hollow Men, After Strange Gods, Alfred Prufrock, Oscar Wilde, President Eliot, Princess Volupine, Sir Ferdinand, Whispers of Immortality, Conversation Galante, East Coker, King William Street, Madame Sosostris, Sweeney Erect, The Fire Sermon, The Tempest, War America New!
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The primary channel of transmission of culture is the family: no man wholly escapes from the kind, or wholly surpasses the degree, of culture which he acquired from his early environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aestheticist writers, finite centres, quatrain poems, untitled chapter, genteel writers, relational consciousness, homo duplex, sordid images, natural sin, metaphysical poets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Henry Adams, Henry James, United States, Cooking Egg, The Education, New York, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, Italian Hours, The Hollow Men, After Strange Gods, Alfred Prufrock, Oscar Wilde, President Eliot, Princess Volupine, Sir Ferdinand, Whispers of Immortality, Conversation Galante, East Coker, King William Street, Madame Sosostris, Sweeney Erect, The Fire Sermon, The Tempest, War America New!
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- The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by T. S. Eliot on 40 pages
- Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot on 5 pages
- The Idea of a Christian Society by T. S. Eliot on 4 pages
- To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings by T. S. Eliot on 4 pages
- The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter on page 146, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by A. David Moody on page 29, page 243, and Back Matter
- The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by John Limon in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- T. S. Eliot: The Modernist in History (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Ronald Bush in Back Matter, and Back Cover
- Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945 by Bryan Cheyette on page 242, and Back Matter
- T. S. Eliot and American Philosophy: The Harvard Years by Manju Jain in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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