Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot

Name: Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot
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ISBN: 9780521421270

ISBN-10: 0521421276

ISBN-13: 9780521421270

Edition: 1994

Authors: A. David Moody

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In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays from several distinct points of view. The major aspects and issues of his life and thought are assessed: his American origins and his becoming English; his position as a philosopher; his literary, social, and political criticism; and the evolution of his religious sense. Later chapters place his work in a number of historical perspectives; and the final chapter provides an expert review of the whole field of Eliot studies and is…

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List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/24/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of contributors


Preface


Chronology of Eliot's life and works


Abbreviations



Where is the real T. S. Eliot? or the life of the poet




Eliot as a product of America




Eliot as philosopher




T. S. Eliot's critical programme




The social critic and his discontents




Religion, literature and society in the work of T. S. Eliot




'England and nowhere'




Early poems: from Prufrock to 'Gerontion'




Improper desire: reading The Waste Land




Ash-Wednesday: a poetry of verification




Four Quartets: music word meaning and value




Pereira and after: the cures of Eliot's theatre




'Mature poets steal': Eliot's allusive practice




Eliot's impact on Anglo-American poetry




Tradition and T. S. Eliot




Eliot: modernism, postmodernism and after




Eliot studies: a review and a select booklist



Index