Sacred Wood [Paperback]

T. S. Eliot (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415050871 | ISBN-13: 978-0415050876 | Publication Date: June 1960 | Edition: 7

The first volume of T.S. Eliot's criticism to be published; includes essays on Dante, Swinburne, Blake and the contemporaries of Shakespeare, on poetry, poetic drama and the criticism of poetry.

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Review

Book of critical essays by T.S. Eliot, published in 1920. In it, Eliot discusses several of the issues of modernist writings of the period. The best-known essay of the collection, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," puts forth Eliot's theory of a literary tradition that comprises the whole of European literature from Homer to the present and of the relationship of the individual poet to that tradition. Another notable essay is "Hamlet and His Problems," in which Eliot expresses his theory of the OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE, a phrase he adapted from either George Santayana or Washington Allston. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 7 edition (June 1960)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415050871
• ISBN-13: 978-0415050876
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,062,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.