A compact biography and guide to one of the greatest English-language poets,T. S. Eliot sheds new light on the themes and events that shaped the life andwork of the Nobel laureate. The twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult writer-forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. In this compelling exploration, prize-winning poet Craig Raine finds a way to read and make sense of Eliot's full corpus. He illuminates a paradoxical Eliot--an exacting anti-romantic realist, skeptical of the emotions, yet incessantly troubled by the fear of emotional failure--throughclose readings of his poetry, with extended analyses of Eliot's two master works--The Waste Land and Four Quartets. Raine also examines Eliot's criticism--including his coinage of such key literary terms as the objective correlative,dissociation of sensibility, the auditory imagination, and hisbiography, crafting a book that provides a concise introduction for beginnersand a provocative set of arguments for Eliot admirers. A sensitive, wide-ranging and stimulating piece of literary criticism INDICE: Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Eliot and the Buried Life Chapter 1: The Failure to Live Chapter 2: Eliot as Classicist Chapter 3: The Waste Land Chapter 4: Four Quartets Chapter 5: The Drama Chapter 6: The CriticismAppendix 1: Eliot and Anti-Semitism Appendix 2: Two Free Translations by Craig Raine of 'Lune de Miel' and 'Dans le Restaurant' Appendix 3: An Eliot Chronology Notes Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-977417-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 24/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés