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T. S. Eliot: A Guide for the Perplexed

By Steve Ellis

Book information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2009
ISBN
9781472543202, 9781847060167, 9781847060174
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
962 kB (985135 bytes)
Series
Guides for the Perplexed
Pages
\174
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 18:32:39

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.

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