37 essays in an expanded edition of the author's major volume of criticism.
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Eliot's criticism is every bit as influential and important as his poetry, bringing to light hidden riches from the literary past which had hitherto been obscured by the Victorian age's taste for the monumental and the correct. This is a reissue of Eliot's own choice of his literary essays, first published in 1951, 'a kind of historical record of my interests and opinions'. The volume opens with his seminal essay, 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', which brilliantly reveals the inadequacy of the romantic ideal of the divinely inspired poet, arguing instead for the importance of the tradition within which the poet is working. Also included are his famous essays 'The Metaphysical Poets', which revived the reputation of these hitherto neglected 17th-century poets, and 'Four Elizabethan Dramatists', which led to plays such as The Duchess of Malfi being once again performed and enjoyed. Eliot's ideas continue to dazzle and enlighten readers to this day. (Kirkus (UK) )
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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.
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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.
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Stimulating for any student of literature,
This review is from: Selected Essays (Paperback)
T.S. Eliot was the dominant figure in modernist literature not just because of his poetry, but also because of his criticism which changed our view of English literature in ways which can still be felt today. He resurrected the forgotten John Donne and had him eclipse John Milton as idol of poetry. He showed that Shakespeare was not the only playwright of his time. He was brillitant at explaining what made modernist literature different from its perdecessors.Eliot's style is a pleasure to read compared to what passes as lit crit today. Many of his insights may seem outdated, but any student of literature will find fascinating views, especially about Elizabethan literature.
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Only a Poet?,
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I was very surprised that I got through this book. It is not every day that a person will pick up a collection of essays on Classical, Elizabethan and other types of literature, for enjoyments sake. Eliot really outdid himself with his reviews of the literature that he was surrounded by. The definite reads, if you do not want to go through all the essays, are the essays "Dante", "Hamlet and his Problems" and "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry". "Dante" is a beuatiful study on both the "Divina Comedia" and "Vita Nouva". "Hamlet" is a putdown on the play that everyone "loves" so much--with the exception of the writer of this sentence. "Dialogue" is a well crafted arguement of the essence of the poetic plays and how they fit into modern--it was written in 1922--times. This book is pure genius, although at points rather "holier-than-thou." Eliot was a genius and he makes sure to let you know it in his essays.
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The Collected essays are quite useful to my study. They help readers to get further understanding about Eliot's thinking and insight to politics and society in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Also, Elito clearly elucidates his idea in logical writing which may be benefitial to readers' writing.
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IN English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Vita Nuova, English Church, The Revenger's Tragedy, Church of England, Marie Lloyd, The Changeling, Professor Murray, The Spanish Tragedy, Anglican Church, The Atheist's Tragedy, Divine Comedy, The Roaring Girle, Ethical Studies, Matthew Arnold, The Jew of Malta, William Archer, Ben Jonson, Bleak House, Catholic Church, The Moonstone, Women Beware Women, King Lear, Malcolm Thomson, Professor Babbitt, Professor Nicoll New!
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IN English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Vita Nuova, English Church, The Revenger's Tragedy, Church of England, Marie Lloyd, The Changeling, Professor Murray, The Spanish Tragedy, Anglican Church, The Atheist's Tragedy, Divine Comedy, The Roaring Girle, Ethical Studies, Matthew Arnold, The Jew of Malta, William Archer, Ben Jonson, Bleak House, Catholic Church, The Moonstone, Women Beware Women, King Lear, Malcolm Thomson, Professor Babbitt, Professor Nicoll New!
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- Vita Nuova (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on 12 pages
- Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on 9 pages
- The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri on 9 pages
- The Spanish Tragedy (New Mermaids) by Thomas Kyd on 7 pages
- Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold on 5 pages
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- The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett by Lee Oser on 6 pages
- Modernism in Greece by Mary N. Layoun on 4 pages
- The Performance of Pleasure in English Renaissance Drama by Ronald Huebert on 4 pages
- Revisiting "The Waste Land" by Lawrence Rainey on 4 pages
- A Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by B.C. Southam on 4 pages
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