T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination
T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination

Author: Jewel Spears Brooker

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1421426536

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What principles connect—and what distinctions separate—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” The Waste Land, and Four Quartets? The thought-tormented characters in T. S. Eliot’s early poetry are paralyzed by the gap between mind and body, thought and action. The need to address this impasse is part of what drew Eliot to philosophy, and the failure of philosophy to appease his disquiet is the reason he gave for abandoning it. In T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination, Jewel Spears Brooker argues that two of the principles that Eliot absorbed as a PhD student at Harvard and Oxford were to become permanent features of his mind, grounding his lifelong quest for wholeness and underpinning most of his subsequent poetry. The first principle is that contradictions are best understood dialectically, by moving to perspectives that both include and transcend them. The second is that all truths exist in relation to other truths. Together or in tandem, these two principles—dialectic and relativism—constitute the basis of a continual reshaping of Eliot’s imagination. The dialectic serves as a kinetic principle, undergirding his impulse to move forward by looping back, and the relativism supports his ingrained ambivalence. Brooker considers Eliot’s poetry in three blocks, each represented by a signature masterpiece: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” The Waste Land, and Four Quartets. She correlates these works with stages in the poet’s intellectual and spiritual life: disjunction, ambivalence, and transcendence. Using a methodology that is both inductive—moving from texts to theories—and comparative—juxtaposing the evolution of Eliot’s mind as reflected in his philosophical prose and the evolution of style as seen in his poetry—Brooker integrates cultural and biographical contexts. The first book to read Eliot’s poems alongside all of his prose and letters, T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination will revise received readings of his mind and art, as well as of literary modernism.

T.S. Eliot's Orchestra
T.S. Eliot's Orchestra

Author: John Xiros Cooper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-13

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1136523715

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First Published in 2000. Nearly everyone who addresses T. S. Eliot's imaginative and critical work must acknowledge the importance of music in thematic and formal terms. This collection of original essays thoroughly explores this aspect of his work from a number of perspectives.

The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780674931503

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Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot invites us to "start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it does or ought to do, or of what use it is; and try to find out, in examining the relation of poetry to criticism, what the use of both of them is."

T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form
T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form

Author: Anthony Julius

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521586733

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Julius's critically acclaimed study (looking both at the detail of Eliot's deployment of anti-Semitic discourse and at the role it played in his greater literary undertaking) has provoked a reassessment of Eliot's work among poets, scholars, critics and readers, which will invigorate debate for some time to come.

T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot

Author: Hugh Kenner

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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To meet Mr. Eliot / Arthur Mizener -- Early London environment / Wyndham Lewis -- Bradley / Hugh Kenner -- Irregular metaphysics / R.P. Blackmur -- Lewis Carroll and t. S. Eliot as nonsense poets / Elizabeth Sewell -- Eliot and Tennyson / S. Musgrove -- "Marie, Marie, hold on tight" / George L.K. Morris -- The waste land / F.R. Leavis -- t. S. Eliot, 1925-1935 / D.W. Harding -- t. S. Eliot's later poetry / F.R. Leavis -- "Little Gidding" / D.W. Harding -- On Ash-Wednesday / Allen Tate -- In the hope of straightening things out / R.P. Blackmur -- Mr. Eliot's solid merit / Ezra Pound -- The style of the master / William Empson -- Murder in the cathedral / John Peter -- The cocktail party / Denis Donoghue -- For other voices / Hugh Kenner -- t. S. Eliot: the end of an era / Donald Davie

The Image of Modern Man in T. S. Eliot's Poetry
The Image of Modern Man in T. S. Eliot's Poetry

Author: Mariwan Nasradeen Hasan Barzinji

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1477247041

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A Synopsis of "The Image of Modern Man in T. S. Eliot's Poetry" The book, presents an original understanding of The Image of Modern Man in T. S. Eliot's complex and difficult poems in an easy and understandable way. Eliot's vision of the Modern Man and the modern world is depicted throughout Eliot's most well-known poems. Eliot was criticized by some critics for the quality of his work. The aim of this book is to show what an excellent and successful writer he is, to reveal the value and the contemporaneity of his work. His poetry is highly evaluated for its unique way of depicting the Modern human by realizing their problems as well as finding solutions for them. The book is a great help not only for students, but also for researchers as the writer has spent much time in reading Eliot's Poems. He has also written an ample introduction about modernism, modernity, modern literature and modern poetry, which might be enough to understand the rise of modern poetry. "... All of Eliot's poems especially "The Waste Land" has presented readers with all the aspects of the modern life. Life is depicted as a mirror, broken and shattered into pieces as it is clear in the different parts of the poem. Eliot unlike many poets did not leave the modern man lost in despair but he finds them them, their peace of mind by having a true and stable faith as well as their turning to God." "... The only solution for the entire problems of modern man is to turn to God and neglect the world that completely occupied them spiritually". "...Modern man lost has lost his values especially women by only looking after children, many of them turned to prostitution because they did not have any source of income; therefore, they used that as a way to earn money to maintain life. These are the characteristics of the modern city, which are shared by all the countries, especially Europe. Eliot insists on the necessity of turning from world to God. He believed that God can solve their problems, because man or any other earthly power could not change that gloomy and aimless life, which modern man complained against."

Eliot’s Early Poetry in Perspective
Eliot’s Early Poetry in Perspective

Author: C. R Mittal

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9788126900312

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T.S. Eliot Remains One Of The Most Widely Read Poets Of The 20Th Century, And Perhaps The Greatest. There Has, However, Been Quite A Dearth Of Critical Material On His Early Poetry Which Has Largely Perplexed Literary Critics. This Book Provides, For The First Time, A Lucid Exposition Of Prufrock And Other Observations 1917 And Poems 1920. Viewing The Poems In The Larger Context Of The Poet-Critic S Life And Works, It Repudiates A Great Many Assumptions About His Early Poetry, Bridges The Artificial Gulf Between The Early And The Later Work, And Makes For Greater Clarity Of Understanding. A Fascinating Study Of Eliot S Spiritual Odyssey, It Would Definitely Appeal To Lovers Of His Poetry.