Decisions and Revisions in T.S. Eliot (Panizzi Lectures) [Paperback]

Christopher Ricks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 22, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0712348433 | ISBN-13: 978-0712348430

Decisions and Revisions in T.S. Eliot attends to one specific embodiment of Eliot's re-thinking: changes that he made after publication. Such revisions have a different standing from any made prior to publication, and they raise questions about reception, audience, and (pre-eminently) self-criticism. In Eliot, the revisions are often substantial and always acutely of interest, for they incarnate a movement of mind even after he had given the work to the world. Such changes in Eliot's poems and elsewhere have not much been pondered as evidence of his art and thought. Moreover there has been an unthinking assumption that revisions to discursive prose, in the nature of the case, do not much matter; yet, to look at the cases is to see how much each may contain.

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Christopher Ricks is professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: British Library (July 22, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0712348433
• ISBN-13: 978-0712348430
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,159,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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