Author: Russell KirkPublisher: Open Court Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780893852474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Eliot and His Age
Author: Russell KirkPublisher: Open Court Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780893852474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Eliot and His Age
Author: Russell KirkPublisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
This book is the first full-length study of Eliot as the "greatest man of letters in his time." The book draws upon Eliot's experience as well as upon his poetry & prose, tracing the links between his life & his writings for the whole of his career.
Eliot and His Age
Author: Russell KirkPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610171113
Category : Didactic poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot
Author: Angus WilsonPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571286844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease, contentment and privilege. All that changes though when she is suddenly left widowed after a senseless tragedy. Totally alone she is thrust into a struggle to reconstruct her life as she realises that she doesn't really know who she is anymore or who she is supposed to be. The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot follows Meg as she tries to make sense of the realities of life, of living and contemplates the future and its possibilites. What she finds is the ability to survive and, also, the joys of new friendships, new opportunities and perhaps even the idea of a new love. Described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of fiction's great female creatures', Meg Eliot is a powerful heroine who inspired readers when she first appeared in 1958.
Eliot and His Age
Author: Russell KirkPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516137
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet's life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk's view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot's writings are informed by wide reading in the same authors who most influenced the poet, as well as by similar experiences and convictions. Kirk elaborates here a significant theory of literary meaning in general, showing how great literary works awaken our intuitive reason, giving us profound visions of truth that transcend logical processes. And he traces Eliot's political and cultural ideas to their true sources, showing the balance and subtlety of Eliot's views. Eliot and His Age is a literary biography that will endure when much of the more recent writing on Eliot is gathering dust.
Coming of Age as a Poet
Author: Helen VendlerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674010246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.
On Poetry and Poets
Author: T. S. EliotPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374531978
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as "The Three Voices of Poetry," "Poetry and Drama," and "What Is Minor Poetry?" as well as the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats. As he writes in "The Music of Poetry," "We must expect a time to come when poetry will have again to be recalled to speech. The same problems arise, and always in new forms; and poetry has always before it . . . an ‘endless adventure.'"
T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature
Author: Steven MatthewsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199574774
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature provides a comprehensive discussion of the engagement of Eliot with that earlier English literary period which he declared to be his favourite. It offers a full sense of the critical and literary context against which Eliot measured his own ideas on Early Modern poets and playwrights.
The Letters of T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. EliotPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 985
Book Description
The first volume of Eliot's correspondence covers his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, when he married and settled in England. Volume two covers the time period of Eliot's publication of The Hallow Men and his developing ideas about poetry.
Author: Eliot