On Frost and Eliot
Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they have usually been considered apart from one another, the homely all-American Frost assumed to have little in common with the sophisticated made-over English Eliot.

William Pritchard's interest is to see what emerges if we juxtapose the two poets and consider their respective poetic careers as quasi-friendly rivals, in technique, in historical weight, and in relation to other twentieth century poets, predominantly English and American ones. They took the occasion more than once to poke fun at the odd poems the other had produced, although they were mutually admiring as they aged. Pritchard's treatment of the pair takes its cue from Frost's distinction between them: "I play Euchre; he plays Eucharist." On Frost and Eliot explores the appropriateness of such a distinction.

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On Frost and Eliot
Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they have usually been considered apart from one another, the homely all-American Frost assumed to have little in common with the sophisticated made-over English Eliot.

William Pritchard's interest is to see what emerges if we juxtapose the two poets and consider their respective poetic careers as quasi-friendly rivals, in technique, in historical weight, and in relation to other twentieth century poets, predominantly English and American ones. They took the occasion more than once to poke fun at the odd poems the other had produced, although they were mutually admiring as they aged. Pritchard's treatment of the pair takes its cue from Frost's distinction between them: "I play Euchre; he plays Eucharist." On Frost and Eliot explores the appropriateness of such a distinction.

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On Frost and Eliot

On Frost and Eliot

by William H. Pritchard
On Frost and Eliot

On Frost and Eliot

by William H. Pritchard

Overview

Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they have usually been considered apart from one another, the homely all-American Frost assumed to have little in common with the sophisticated made-over English Eliot.

William Pritchard's interest is to see what emerges if we juxtapose the two poets and consider their respective poetic careers as quasi-friendly rivals, in technique, in historical weight, and in relation to other twentieth century poets, predominantly English and American ones. They took the occasion more than once to poke fun at the odd poems the other had produced, although they were mutually admiring as they aged. Pritchard's treatment of the pair takes its cue from Frost's distinction between them: "I play Euchre; he plays Eucharist." On Frost and Eliot explores the appropriateness of such a distinction.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781589882027
Publisher: Dry, Paul Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 05/13/2025
Pages: 244
Product dimensions: 8.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

William H. Pritchard is the author of several essay collections and literary biographies including Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life, Updike: America’s Man of Letters, and Ear Training (Paul Dry Books, 2023). He is professor of English emeritus at Amherst College where he taught for sixty years. He lives in western Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Frost
1. The Designs of Robert Frost
2. Frost Departmentalized
3. Frost Revised
4. Robert Frost Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays
5. The Notebooks of Robert Frost
6. The Flip Side of Frost
7. Frost In His Letters
8. Frost Letters, vol 2
9. Robert Frost Letters v. 3
10. A Witness Tree and Frost’s Biography
11. West of Boston: Robert Frost
12. Frost and Edward Thomas
13. Frost’s Mischievous Grip 120

Part II: Eliot
1. T. S. Eliot: A Revaluation
2. Epistolary Eliot
3. T.S. Eliot as Critic and Editor
4. Prufrock Centennial
5. Poet in his Youth
6. The Letters of T.S. Eliot Vol 3
7. The Letters of T.S. Eliot Vol. 6
8. The Prose Eliot
9. T.S. Eliot Prose Letters
10. Eliot’s Mischievous Prose
11. T.S. Eliot Complete Poems
12. Eliot’s Last Prose
13. Letters Eliot Vol 9

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