Eliot and His Age
Author | : Russell Kirk |
Publisher | : Open Court Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780893852474 |
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Author | : Russell Kirk |
Publisher | : Open Court Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780893852474 |
Author | : Russell Kirk |
Publisher | : New York : Random House |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This book is the first full-length study of Eliot as the "greatest man of letters in his time." The book draws upon Eliot's experience as well as upon his poetry & prose, tracing the links between his life & his writings for the whole of his career.
Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674010246 |
With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.
Author | : Angus Wilson |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2012-08-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0571286844 |
Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease, contentment and privilege. All that changes though when she is suddenly left widowed after a senseless tragedy. Totally alone she is thrust into a struggle to reconstruct her life as she realises that she doesn't really know who she is anymore or who she is supposed to be. The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot follows Meg as she tries to make sense of the realities of life, of living and contemplates the future and its possibilites. What she finds is the ability to survive and, also, the joys of new friendships, new opportunities and perhaps even the idea of a new love. Described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of fiction's great female creatures', Meg Eliot is a powerful heroine who inspired readers when she first appeared in 1958.
Author | : Russell Kirk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Didactic poetry, American |
ISBN | : 9781610171113 |
Author | : Russell Kirk |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2023-07-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1684516137 |
Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet's life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk's view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot's writings are informed by wide reading in the same authors who most influenced the poet, as well as by similar experiences and convictions. Kirk elaborates here a significant theory of literary meaning in general, showing how great literary works awaken our intuitive reason, giving us profound visions of truth that transcend logical processes. And he traces Eliot's political and cultural ideas to their true sources, showing the balance and subtlety of Eliot's views. Eliot and His Age is a literary biography that will endure when much of the more recent writing on Eliot is gathering dust.
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | : H. Hamilton |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Russell Kirk |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1684516390 |
What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk identifies the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called a "tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For an understanding of the significance of America in the twenty-first century, Russell Kirk's masterpiece on the history of American civilization is unsurpassed.
Author | : Steven Matthews |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199574774 |
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.
Author | : Robert Crawford |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2015-01-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473523206 |
Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century’s most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Waste Land. Meticulously detailed and incisively written, Young Eliot portrays a brilliant, shy and wounded American who defied his parents’ wishes and committed himself to life as an immigrant in England, authoring work astonishing in its scope and hurt. Quoting extensively from poetry and prose as well as drawing on new interviews, archives, and previously undisclosed memoirs, Robert Crawford shows how Eliot’s background in Missouri, Massachusetts and Paris made him a lightning conductor for modernity. Most impressively, Young Eliot shows how deeply personal were the experiences underlying masterpieces from ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ to The Waste Land. T. S. Eliot wanted no biography written, but this book reveals him in all his vulnerable complexity as student and lover, stink-bomber, banker and philosopher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.