T. S. Eliot: A Guide for the Perplexed Contributor(s): Ellis, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 184706017X ISBN-13: 9781847060174 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: A concise and clear guide to the complexities of T.S.Eliot's poetry, with easy to follow structure and chapters on Eliot's major texts, all in chronological order. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
Dewey: 821.912 |
LCCN: 2009012171 |
Series: Guides for the Perplexed |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.75 lbs) 180 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: T. S. Eliot is one of the most celebrated twentieth-century poets and one whose work is practically synonymous with perplexity. Eliot is perceived as extremely challenging due to the multi-lingual references and fragmentation we find in his poetry and his recurring literary allusions to writers including Dante, Shakespeare, Marvell, Baudelaire, and Conrad. There is an additional difficulty for today's readers that Eliot probably didn't envisage: the widespread unfamiliarity with the Christianity that his work is steeped in. Steve Ellis introduces Eliot's work by using his extensive prose writings to illuminate the poetry. As a major critic, as well as poet, Eliot was highly conscious of the challenges his poetry set, of its relation to and difference from the work of previous poets, and of the ways in which the activity of reading was problematized by his work. |