T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews

by Jewel Spears Brooker (Editor)

Overview

Jewel Spears Brooker presents the most comprehensive gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of Eliot's work ever assembled. Including reviews from both American and British journals, Brooker expands on major themes within the reviews to demonstrate how they influenced not only Eliot, but also literary history in the twentieth century. Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot was also extremely prolific. This volume is a testament to both aspects of his work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521382779
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/10/2004
Series:	American Critical Archives , #14
Pages:	644
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Acknowledgments; Prufrock and Other Observations (1917); Poems (1919); Ara Vos Prec (1920); Poems 1920 (1920); The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism; The Waste Land (1922); Homage To John Dryden (1924); Poems 1909–1925 (1925); For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order (1928, 1929); Dante (1929); Marina (1930); Animula (1930); Ash-Wednesday (1930); Selected Essays 1917-1932 (1932); Sweeny Agonistes (1932); The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933); After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy (1934); The Rock (1934); Murder in the Cathedral (1935); Collected Poems 1909–1935 (1936); The Family Reunion (1939); The Idea of a Christian Society (1939); East Coker (1940); Burnt Norton (1941); The Dry Salvages (1941); Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943); Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948,1949); The Cocktail Party (1949, 1950); The Confidential Clerk (1954); The Elder Statesman (1959).

Editorial Reviews

"Jewel Spears Brooker has done a fine job executing this massive project. On the one hand, Brooker presents a wide range of reviews of individual works, yet she manages to weed out redundancies, passages that do not relate to Eliot, and most well-known quotations of Eliot's own work. There is very little repetition of content, even in sections where an extremely generous number of reviews of an individual work appear... Also, Brooker's exellent introduction provides a variety of very helpful contexts for reading the reviews. Given the rich content, this is a volume that all academic libraries need to own." English Literature in Transition, Richard Badenhausen, Westminster College

"These reviews are often remarkably insightful at the same time that they reveal divergences that continue to the present." Books and Culture, Daniel Taylor, Bethel College

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