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Title: Selected Essays: 1917-1932 by T. S. Eliot ISBN: 0151803870 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: October, 1950 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 5
Summary: Stimulating for any student of literature
Comment: T.S. Eliot was the dominant figure in modernist literature not just because of his poetry, but also because of his criticism which changed our view of English literature in ways which can still be felt today. He resurrected the forgotten John Donne and had him eclipse John Milton as idol of poetry. He showed that Shakespeare was not the only playwright of his time. He was brillitant at explaining what made modernist literature different from its perdecessors.
Eliot's style is a pleasure to read compared to what passes as lit crit today. Many of his insights may seem outdated, but any student of literature will find fascinating views, especially about Elizabethan literature.
Rating: 4
Summary: Only a Poet?
Comment: I was very surprised that I got through this book. It is not every day that a person will pick up a collection of essays on Classical, Elizabethan and other types of literature, for enjoyments sake. Eliot really outdid himself with his reviews of the literature that he was surrounded by. The definite reads, if you do not want to go through all the essays, are the essays "Dante", "Hamlet and his Problems" and "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry". "Dante" is a beuatiful study on both the "Divina Comedia" and "Vita Nouva". "Hamlet" is a putdown on the play that everyone "loves" so much--with the exception of the writer of this sentence. "Dialogue" is a well crafted arguement of the essence of the poetic plays and how they fit into modern--it was written in 1922--times. This book is pure genius, although at points rather "holier-than-thou." Eliot was a genius and he makes sure to let you know it in his essays.
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Title: Christianity and Culture by T.S. Eliot ISBN: 0156177358 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: June, 1960 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot ISBN: 0156806541 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: November, 1975 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relationship of Criticism to Poetry in England by T. S. Eliot ISBN: 0674931505 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950 by T.S. Eliot ISBN: 015121185X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 20 November, 1952 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: A Reader's Guide to T.S. Eliot: A Poem-By-Poem Analysis (Reader's Guide Series (Syracuse, N.Y.).) by George Williamson ISBN: 0815605005 Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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