T. S. Eliot’s lifelong quest for a world of the spirit is the theme of this book by leading Eliot scholar A. David Moody. The first four essays in the collection map Eliot’s spiritual geography: the American taproot of his poetry, his profound engagement with the philosophy and religion of India, his near and yet detached relations with England, and his problematic cultivation of a European mind. At the centre of the collection is a study of the Latin poem Pervigilium Veneris, a fragment of which figures enigmatically in the concluding lines of The Waste Land. The third part of the collection is a set of five investigations of Eliot’s poems, dealing particularly with The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets, and attending to how they express and shape what he called ‘the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being’. INDICE: Foreword; Part I: 1. The American strain; 2. Passage to India; 3. Peregrine in England; 4. The mind of Europe; Part II: 5. Pervigilium veneris and the modern mind; Part III: 6. The Waste Land: ‘To fill all the desert with inviolable voice’; 7. The experience and the meaning: Ash Wednesday; 8. The formal pattern; 9. Four Quartets: music, word, meaning, value; 10. Being in fearof women.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-06096-7
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha Publicación: 24/04/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés