T. S. Eliot: The Poems

by Martin Scofield

Overview

This book provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to Eliot's poetry for those reading and studying it, perhaps for the first time. The poems—as well as some of the poetic drama and relevant prose criticism—are discussed in detail and placed in relation to the development of Eliot's oeuvre, to his life, and to a wider context of philosophical and religious enquiry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521317610
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/10/1988
Series:	British and Irish Authors
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Aspects of the life of the poet; 2. Early poetic influences and criticism, and poems written in early youth; 3. Prufrock and other observations (1917); 4. Poetic thoery and poetic practice; 5. Poems (1920); 6. The waste land (1922); 7. From The hollow men (1925) to 'Marina' (1930); 8. Poetry, pattern and belief; 9. From Coriolan (1931) to 'Burnt Norton' (1936); 10. 'Burnt Norton' (1936) and the pattern for Four Quartets; 11. The wartime Quartets (1940–2); Notes; Swelect bibliography; Index.