| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 202 pages) |
| Series |
Lives and legacies |
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Lives and legacies.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Eliot and the buried life -- The failure to live -- Eliot as classicist : the enquiry into feelings -- The waste land -- Four quartets -- The drama -- The criticism |
| Summary |
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 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 poet--forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. Now, in this brilliant exploration of T.S. Eliot's work, prize-winning poet Craig Raine reveals that, on the contrary, Eliot's poetry (and drama and criticism) can be seen as a unified and coherent body of work. Indeed, despite its manifest originality, its radical experimentation, and its dazzling formal variety, his verse yields meaning just as surely |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
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Critics -- United States -- Biography.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0195309936 (electronic bk.) |
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019534555X (electronic bk.) |
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9780195309935 (electronic bk.) |
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9780195345551 (electronic bk.) |
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