T. S. Eliot

2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-977417-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 325 g

The twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult writer-forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. In this compelling exploration, prize-winning poet Craig Raine finds a way to read and make sense of Eliot's full corpus. He illuminates a paradoxical Eliot--an exacting anti-romantic realist, skeptical of the emotions, yet incessantly troubled by the fear of emotional failure--through close readings of his poetry, with extended analyses of Eliot's two master works--The Waste Land and Four Quartets. Raine also examines Eliot's criticism--including his coinage of such key literary terms as the objective correlative, dissociation of sensibility, the auditory imagination, and his biography, crafting a book that provides a concise introduction for beginners and a provocative set of arguments for Eliot admirers.

Zielgruppe

readers of general interest magazines/journals like The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, The New Republic, n +1, The Believer; academic journals like Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, ELH, Poetry; scholars of modernist poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raine, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Raine, Craig
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.