The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot
The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot
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An international team of leading T.S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully coordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays, while others assess the major aspects of his life and thought. Later chapters place his work in historical perspective. There is a full review of Eliot studies, and a useful chronological outline. Taken as a whole, this Companion comprises an essential handbook for students and readers of T.S. Eliot.
- An essential introduction and handbook to our century's premier poet
- Provides a full introductory critical survey by experts
- Also an essential library purchase because of reference material including a full review of Eliot studies
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- Published: July 2006
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- ISBN: 9780511221637
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Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Chronology of Eliot's life and works
- Abbreviations
- 1. Where is the real T. S. Eliot? or the life of the poet James Olney
- 2. Eliot as a product of America Eric Sigg
- 3. Eliot as philosopher Richard Shusterman
- 4. T. S. Eliot's critical programme Timothy Matherer
- 5. The social critic and his discontents Peter Dale Scott
- 6. Religion, literature and society in the work of T. S. Eliot Cleo McNelly Kearns
- 7. 'England and nowhere' Alan Marshall
- 8. Early poems: from Prufrock to 'Gerontion' J. C. Mays
- 9. Improper desire: reading The Waste Land Harriet Davidson
- 10. Ash-Wednesday: a poetry of verification John Kwan-Terry
- 11. Four Quartets: music word meaning and value A. David Moody
- 12. Pereira and after: the cures of Eliot's theatre Robin Grove
- 13. 'Mature poets steal': Eliot's allusive practice James Longenbach
- 14. Eliot's impact on Anglo-American poetry Charles Altieri
- 15. Tradition and T. S. Eliot Jean-Michel Rabaté
- 16. Eliot: modernism, postmodernism and after Bernard Sharratt
- 17. Eliot studies: a review and a select booklist Jewel Spears Brooker
- Index.
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