Craig Raine

T. S. Eliot

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A compact biography and guide to one of the greatest English-language poets, T. S. Eliot sheds new light on the themes and events that shaped the life and work of the Nobel laureate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 243g
• ISBN-13: 9780199774173
• ISBN-10: 019977417X
• Artikelnr.: 33606291

Autorenporträt

Craig Raine is Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, Oxford, and editor of Arete, a tri-quarterly arts magazine. Poet, literary critic, playwright, librettist, and editor, Raine has been a powerful voice and an adversarial, intellectually independent figure in the literary world for the last 40 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Eliot and the Buried Life
Chapter 1: The Failure to Live
Chapter 2: Eliot as Classicist
Chapter 3: The Waste Land
Chapter 4: Four Quartets
Chapter 5: The Drama
Chapter 6: The Criticism
Appendix 1: Eliot and Anti-Semitism
Appendix 2: Two Free Translations by Craig Raine of 'Lune de Miel' and 'Dans le Restaurant'
Appendix 3: An Eliot Chronology
Notes
Index