T. S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover

T. S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover
Author: Donald J. Childs
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-01-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1472537467

Based upon manuscript sources and the uncollected prose writings, as well as the published works, this is a profound exploration of Eliot's life-long preoccupation with mysticism. The author advances new readings of the familiar poems and essays through attention to Eliot's concern in poetry and prose with his roles as mystic, son and lover.

From Physics to Metaphysics: Philosophy and Allegory in the Critical Writings of T. S. Eliot

From Physics to Metaphysics: Philosophy and Allegory in the Critical Writings of T. S. Eliot
Author: Fabio L. Vericat Pérez-Mínguez
Publisher: Universitat de València
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011-11-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 843708556X

Antes de dedicarse por completo a la literatura, T.S. Eliot fue un serio estudiante de filosofía. Este estudio pretende determinar la importancia de este hecho en su desarrollo como crítico literario. La intención es argumentar que el cambio que Eliot hizo de la filosofía a la literatura fue instigado con la esperanza de encontrar en el campo literario un estilo que había vencido durante sus estudios filosóficos.

T.S. Eliot's Civilized Savage

T.S. Eliot's Civilized Savage
Author: Laurie MacDiarmid
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2003-04-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317688716

T. S. Eliot's Civilized Savage revisits this poet's drafts and canonical poetry in a sometimes dismissive critical arena . While contemporary readers emphasize Eliot's charged personal life, his anti-Semitism, his political conservatism, and his misogyny, Laurie MacDiarmid argues that although Eliot's poetics are shaped by private fears and fantasies, in many ways these are the ghosts of a culture that accepts and celebrates him. Comparing early versions with finished poems, this book explores the development and ramifications of Eliot's 'impersonal' poetic without losing sight of his influential, haunting work. Examining Eliot's neurotic relationship with women and his escape into women and his escape into spirituality, this book observes how Eliot conceived and eroticized poetry of worship and a poetic that dictated a sacrificial relationship to a savage God.

T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal

T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal
Author: Joshua Richards
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004375821

T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Idealcharts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot’s interaction with asceticism. Eliot’s early encounters with the ascetic ideal began a lifetime of interplay and reflection upon self-denial, purgation, and self-surrender.

T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination

T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination
Author: Jewel Spears Brooker
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421426528

Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination will revise received readings of his mind and art, as well as of literary modernism.

Religion and Myth in T.S. Eliot's Poetry

Religion and Myth in T.S. Eliot's Poetry
Author: Michael Bell
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-08-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 144389835X

T.S. Eliot was arguably the most important poet of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, there remains much scope for reconsidering the content, form and expressive nature of Eliot’s religious poetry, and this edited collection pays particular attention to the multivalent spiritual dimensions of his popular poems, such as ‘The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Waste Land’, ‘Journey of the Magi’, ‘The Hollow Men’, and ‘Choruses’ from The Rock. Eliot’s sustained popularity is an intriguing cultural phenomenon, given that the religious voice of Eliot’s poetry is frequently antagonistic towards the ‘unchurched’ or secular reader: ‘You! Hypocrite lecteur!’ This said, Eliot’s spiritual development was not a logical matter and his devotional poetry is rarely didactic. The volume presents a rich and powerful range of essays by leading and emerging T.S. Eliot and literary modernist scholars, considering the doctrinal, religious, humanist, mythic and secular aspects of Eliot’s poetry: Anglo-Catholic belief (Barry Spurr), the integration of doctrine and poetry (Tony Sharpe), the modernist mythopoeia of Four Quartets (Michael Bell), the ‘felt significance’ of religious poetry (Andy Mousley), ennui as a modern evil (Scott Freer), Eliot’s pre-conversion encounter with ‘modernist theology’ (Joanna Rzepa), Eliot’s ‘religious agrarianism’ (Jeremy Diaper), the maternal allegory of Ash Wednesday (Matthew Geary), and an autobiographical reading of religious conversion inspired by Eliot in a secular age (Lynda Kong). This book is a timely addition to the ‘return of religion’ in modernist studies in the light of renewed interest in T.S. Eliot scholarship.

T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature

T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature
Author: Steven Matthews
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-02-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199574774

T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature provides a comprehensive discussion of the engagement of Eliot with that earlier English literary period which he declared to be his favourite. It offers a full sense of the critical and literary context against which Eliot measured his own ideas on Early Modern poets and playwrights.

Divine Cartographies

Divine Cartographies
Author: W. David Soud
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019108333X

Recent critical studies of late modernism have explored the changing sense of both history and artistic possibility that emerged in the years surrounding World War II. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of poets' theological deliberations on their visions of history and their poetic strategies. Divine Cartographies: God, History, and Poiesis in W. B. Yeats, David Jones, and T. S. Eliot triangulates key texts as attempts to map theologically driven visions of the relation between history and eternity. W. David Soud considers several poems of Yeats's final and most fruitful engagement with Indic traditions, Jones's The Anathemata, and Eliot's Four Quartets. For these three poets, working at the height of their powers, that project was inseparable from reflection on the relation between the individual self and God; it was also bound up with questions of theodicy, subjectivity, and the task of the poet in the midst of historical trauma. Drawing on the fields of Indology, theology, and history of religions as well as literary criticism, Soud explores in depth and detail how, in these texts, theology is poetics.

Ascetic Modernism in the Work of T S Eliot and Gustave Flaubert

Ascetic Modernism in the Work of T S Eliot and Gustave Flaubert
Author: Henry Michael Gott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317318900

Gott examines Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) in conjunction with Gustave Flaubert’s La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874). He provides a highly original reading of both texts and argues that a stylistic affinity exists between the two works.