Martin Scofield

T. S. Eliot

The Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to Eliot's poetry for those reading and studying it, perhaps for the first time. The poems--as well as some of the poetic drama and relevant prose criticism--are discussed in detail and placed in relation to the development of Eliot's oeuvre, to his life, and to a wider context of philosophical and religious enquiry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780521317610
• ISBN-10: 0521317614
• Artikelnr.: 21702651

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
1. Aspects of the life of the poet
2. Early poetic influences and criticism, and poems written in early youth
3. Prufrock and other observations (1917)
4. Poetic thoery and poetic practice
5. Poems (1920)
6. The waste land (1922)
7. From The hollow men (1925) to 'Marina' (1930)
8. Poetry, pattern and belief
9. From Coriolan (1931) to 'Burnt Norton' (1936)
10. 'Burnt Norton' (1936) and the pattern for Four Quartets
11. The wartime Quartets (1940-2)
Notes
Swelect bibliography
Index.