T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature

T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature
Author :
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 233
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780191669460
ISBN-13 : 0191669466
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Book Synopsis T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature by : Steven Matthews

Download or read book T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature written by Steven Matthews and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature, for the first time, considers the full imaginative and moral engagement of one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot, with the Early Modern period of literature in English (1580-1630). This engagement haunted Eliot's poetry and critical writing across his career, and would have a profound impact on subsequent poetry across the world, as well as upon academic literary criticism, and wider cultural perceptions. To this end, the book elucidates and contextualizes several facets of Eliot's thinking and its impact: through establishment of his original and eclectic understanding of the Early Modern period in relation to the literary and critical source materials available to him; through consideration of uncollected and archival materials, which suggest a need to reassess established readings of the poet's career; and through attention to Eliot's resonant formulations about the period in consequent literary, critical and artistic arenas. To the end of his life, Eliot had to fend off the presumption that he had, in some way, 'invented' the Early Modern period for the modern age. Yet the presumption holds some force - it is famously and influentially an implication running through Eliot's essays on that earlier period, and through his many references to its writings in his poetry, that the Early Modern period formed the most exact historical analogy for the apocalyptic events (and consequent social, cultural and literary turmoil) of the first half of the twentieth-century. T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature gives a comprehensive sense of the vital engagement of this self-consciously modern poet with the earlier period he always declared to be his favourite.


T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature Related Books

T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Steven Matthews
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-21 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature, for the first time, considers the full imaginative and moral engagement of one of the most influential poets of the twen
Discovering Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Louis Menand
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history o
T. S. Eliot
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Ronald Bush
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-02-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 has provided this occasion to review his life and work, and reassess him in the light of various critical developments in
Theorists of Modernist Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 157
Authors: Rebecca Beasley
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-03 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Exploring the work of T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound - this book offers invaluable insight into the modernist movement and demonstrates the impact of the
'The Men of 1914'
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Erik Svarny
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK