T.S. Eliot's Bleistein Poems: Uses of Literary Allusion in 'Burbank with a Baedeker, Bleistein with a Cigar' and 'Dirge'

by Patricia Sloane

Overview

Patricia Sloane's study is a detailed reassessment of two of the poet's most provocative works that examine Eliot's allusions and larger purpose. In this close reading of the two poems in which Bleistein appears, Sloane shows that Burbank is an intricate derivation of Dante's Inferno. The book also includes a general introduction to Eliot's use of literary sources and to the introduction of the five poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761818809
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/2001
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Patricia Sloane is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities Department of the New York City Technical College of the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword by Shyamal Bagchee
Chapter 2 Author's Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Abbreviations
Chapter 5 Jews and Infidels in Inferno 4 and "Burbank"
Chapter 6 Money in Furs, Money in Non-Ferrous Metals I
Chapter 7 Money in Furs, Money in Non-Ferrous Metals II
Chapter 8 Is Bleistein a Poet? (Part One)
Chapter 9 Is Bleistein a Poet? (Part Two)
Chapter 10 "Full Fathom Five Your Bleistein Lies"
Chapter 11 Beautiful Caricatures, Serious Humor
Chapter 12 A Wilderness of Lions, Wheels, and Kingdoms
Chapter 13 Eliot's Jews (Capitalized and Uncapitalized)
Chapter 14 Bleistein and Klein, the Names
Chapter 15 Princess Volupine, Venice, and John Ruskin
Chapter 16 The Epigraph to "Burbank:" Fragment One
Chapter 17 The Epigraph: Fragments Two Through Six
Chapter 18 The "God-Centered" Hippo Trilogy
Chapter 19 The Sixth Quatrain
Chapter 20 The Notes to the Waste Land
Chapter 21 Dante as a Primary Source I
Chapter 22 Dante as a Primary Source II
Chapter 23 Appendix I
Chapter 24 Appendix II
Chapter 25 References
Chapter 26 Index
Chapter 27 Tables

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