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- Page extent: 142 pages
- Size: 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.2 kg
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Contents
| Preface |
page ix |
| Abbreviations |
xi |
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| Chapter 1 Life |
1 |
| Early life, 1888–1914 |
1 |
| A bohemian life, 1915–1922 |
5 |
| Man of letters, 1923–1945 |
12 |
| The sage, 1945–1965 |
19 |
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| Chapter 2 Contexts |
22 |
| Early influences |
22 |
| France |
23 |
| England |
25 |
| Religion |
26 |
| Philosophy |
27 |
| Culture and society |
29 |
| Romanticism and classicism |
31 |
| A sense of the past |
35 |
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| Chapter 3 Works |
37 |
| Early poems |
41 |
| “Portrait of a Lady” |
46 |
| “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” |
48 |
| “The Hollow Men” |
55 |
| “Gerontion” |
56 |
Poems 1920 |
59 |
| The Waste Land |
62 |
| The Ariel poems and Ash-Wednesday |
80 |
| Plays |
88 |
| Cultural criticism |
89 |
| Four Quartets |
92 |
| Reevaluation |
107 |
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| Chapter 4 Critical reception |
109 |
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| Notes |
117 |
| The works of T. S. Eliot |
120 |
| Further reading |
121 |
| Index |
124 |
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