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:	02/28/2003
Series:	British and Irish Authors Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.43(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.