Poetic Theory and Practice of T.S. Eliot

Poetic Theory and Practice of T.S. Eliot
Author: Dushiant Kumar Rampal
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1996
Genre: English poetry
ISBN: 9788171565245

This Is A Comprehensive Study Of The Whole Æuvre Of T.S. Eliot, His Poetry, Criticism, Drama And Social Writings From The Pen Of A Penetrating Scholar. The Writings Of Eliot Still Form Major Documents Of Twentieth Century English Literature Presenting Challenges And Problems To The Reader. Using The Tools Of 'Background' And 'Domain' Assumptions, The Author Has Brought Out Eliot'S Philosophical Moorings And Sociological Preoccupations. A Study Of This Book Is A Must If Eliot'S Esoteric Doctrines And Poetry Have To Be Seen As A Systematic Whole.

T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions

T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions
Author: Cleo McNelly Kearns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1987-06-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521324397

An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.

The Poetry of T. S. Eliot

The Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Author: D. E. S. Maxwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317308174

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot’s poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments. This study traces Eliot’s style from the earliest poems to the Quartets, and examines the characteristics of Eliot’s earlier work adumbrate that of his maturity. The Poetry of T. S. Eliot is essential reading for students of literature.

T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination

T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination
Author: Jewel Spears Brooker
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421426536

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: The Poems

T. S. Eliot: The Poems
Author: Martin Scofield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1988-03-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521317610

"The poems, . . . some of the poetic drama (particularly Sweeney Agonistes), and relevant sections of prose criticism, are discussed in detail and placed in relation to the development of Eliot's oeuvre, and more briefly to his life and a wider context of philosophical and religious enquiry" --Introduction.

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
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674931503

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."

The Art of Poetry

The Art of Poetry
Author: Paul Valéry
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1989-07-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691018804

"First Princeton paperback printing, 1985. Second Princeton paperback printing, 1989"--Verso of t.p. Originally published in 1958.

Coming of Age as a Poet

Coming of Age as a Poet
Author: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674010246

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.

Words Alone

Words Alone
Author: Denis Donoghue
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002-08-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780300097191

When Denis Donoghue left Warrenpoint and went to Dublin in September 1946, he entered University College as a student of Latin and English. A few months later he also started as a student of lieder at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. These studies have informed his reading of English, Irish, and American literature. Now in this volume, one of our most distinguished readers of modern literature offers his most personal book of literary criticism. Donoghue's Words Alone is an intellectual memoir, a lucid and illuminating account of his engagement with the works of T. S. Eliot--from initial undergraduate encounters with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to later submission to Eliot's entire writings. "The pleasure of Eliot's words persists," Donoghue says, "only because in good faith it can't be denied." Submission to Eliot, in Donoghue's case, involves the ear as much as it does the mind. He is a reader who listens attentively and a writer whose own music in these pages commands attention. Whether he is writing about Eliot's poetry or confronting the (often contentious) prose, Donoghue eloquently demonstrates what it means to read and to hear a master of language.

Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats

Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0358380154

The inspiration for the iconic musical Cats, T. S. Eliot's classic and delightful collection of poetry about cats. These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and adults alike. This collection is a curious and artful homage to felines young and old, merry and fierce, small and unmistakably round. This is the ultimate gift for cat and poetry lovers.