Steven Matthews

T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature provides a comprehensive discussion of the engagement of Eliot with that earlier English literary period which he declared to be his favourite. It offers a full sense of the critical and literary context against which Eliot measured his own ideas on Early Modern poets and playwrights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199574773
• ISBN-10: 0199574774
• Artikelnr.: 36331518

Autorenporträt

Steven Matthews is Professor of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is author of Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation. The Evolving Debate, 1969 to the Present (Macmillan, 1997); Yeats as Precursor (Macmillan 2000); and Les Murray (Manchester U.P. Contemporary World Writers Series, 2001). He has contributed the volume on Modernism to the Contexts series (Bloomsbury Academic) of which he is founder editor. (2004). He is also editor of the Sourcebooks series for Palgrave, where his book Modernism appeared in 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 'Without a Harmonising Medium': Eliot in 1919, and Contemporary
Criticism of Early Modern Drama
* 2: 'I am not all Heere': Donne, Marlowe, 'disintegration', and the
Development of Dramatic Lyricism by Eliot
* 3: 'Signs Never Come Amiss': Early Modern Voices in Eliot's collected
poetry to Poems, 1920
* 4: 'Ideas, and the Sensibility of Thought': The Quest for a
Metaphysical Poetry 1920-22
* 5: Cryptograms: The Waste Land, Sweeney Agonistes, and 'The Hollow
Men'
* 6: 'The Pattern Behind the Pattern': Ash-Wednesday, the Ariel poems,
and 'Coriolan'
* 7: Towards a New Dramatic Articulation: The Rock and Murder in the
Cathedral
* 8: 'A Fusion, in Sympathy of Antipathy': Four Quartets and the Late
Plays