Download or read book T S Eliot Vedanta and Buddhism written by P. S. Sri and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.S. Eliot's deep interest in Indian philosophical systems has longbeen acknowledged, but surprisingly little exploration of theirinfluence on his poetry and drama has been undertaken. In T.S.Eliot, Vedanta, and Buddhism, Sri juxtaposes the essentialperceptions of Indian thought with Eliot's work to illuminate hisvision of the human condition.
Download or read book The Influence of Vedanta and Buddhism on the Poetry and Drama of T S Eliot written by P. S. Padmanabhan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian philosophical themes and symbols which are fused with the Christian doctrine in Eliot's poetry and drama have not been scrutinized and interpreted with the care and attention they deserve. This is surprising since Eliot's preoccupation with Indian philosophical thought dates back to his early youth and undergraduate days at Harvard. It is not difficult to illustrate the explicit use Eliot makes of Indian philosophy in his poetry; to cite but one example, he brings the Buddha and St. Augustine together at the very core of The Waste Land. But, in most instances, these allusions to Indian thought have not been related to his basic vision of the human condition. Unless all direct references to Indian thought in Eliot's poetry and drama are regarded as mere window-dressing, they must be understood as indispensable parts of organic wholes, indicating a particularly valuable mode of penetration which might uncover the implicit use Eliot makes of Indian philosophical thought. Eliot's family background and upbringing contributed to the development of a ecumenical and tolerant spirit in him and encouraged him to explore and assimilate thoughts and perspectives beyond his own creed. Thus, when he went to Harvard, he studied Indian languages and philosophical and literary texts. Later, when he edited the Criterion, he published a considerable number of articles and book reviews pertaining to Indian philosophy; this indicated his continued interest in Indian philosophy and literature beyond his student days. Presumably, therefore, he assimilated a great deal of Indian philosophy and incorporated it in his poetry and drama. Poetry, religion and philosophy are no doubt quite distinct from each other in the abstract, and may be regarded as having different functions. But, in the concrete, they overlap considerably, since all three of them, at their very highest and best, spring out of certain fundamental intuitions which are keenly experienced and felt to be of cosmic significance. A comparison of the fundamental intuitions of Vedanta and Buddhism with those underlying Eliot's poetry and drama would enable one not only to gauge the deep influence of Vedanta and Buddhism on Eliot's Welt anschauung, but also to gain some insight into his basic vision of the human condition. It is found that the philosophical and spiritual orientation of Eliot is essentially in accordance with the basic tenets of Vedanta and Buddhism and that these truths are fused with Christian doctrine in his poetry and drama. Consequently, there is, at first, the penetrating awareness of the pervasiveness of suffering and impermanence. Next, there is the recognition that the root-cause of all suffering is the craving that impels us to cling to transient material phenomena. Then, there is the realization that through the practice of detachment from craving and compassion towards those who suffer, the universal change and suffering can be transcended, though not negated, in the apprehension of the timeless in time. And above all, there is the deep feeling that permeates his works from beginning to end, the heart-felt yearning for a mystic union with the Ultimate Reality in one's own being, a yearning born out of the conviction that one must work out one's salvation with diligence, and expressing itself through passionate prayer which his poetry as a whole may be said to embody in the last analysis. The basic concern that animates Eliot's poetic "raids on the inarticulate" - the awareness of man's intimate connection with both time and eternity, within the framework of the fact of human bondage and the possibility of human freedom - is absolutely universal and may well be called the 'philosophia perennis' that surfaces variously time and again in the religious and philosophical traditions of the East and the West. It is clear, therefore, that Eliot not only had more than a nodding acquaintance with Indian philosophical thought but that he deliberately reached out beyond the confines of his Anglo-Catholicism and Occidental personality in a genuine attempt at East-West ideo-synthesis. And Eliot's vision of the human condition is one of the most reliable, if one is looking for a momentary stay against confusion in the contemporary chaos.
Download or read book The Buddhist Influence in T S Eliot s Four Quartets written by Paul Foster and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desire and the Ascetic Ideal written by Edward Upton and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu words "Shantih shantih shantih" provide the closing of The Waste Land, perhaps the most famous poem of the twentieth century. This is just one example among many of T. S. Eliot’s immersion in Sanskrit and Indian philosophy and of how this fascination strongly influenced his work. Centering on Eliot’s study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poet’s work, analyzing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliot’s connection with Buddhist thought. Eliot was crucially influenced by his early engagement with Indian texts, and when analyzed through this lens, his poems reveal a criticism of the attachments of human desire and the suggestion that asceticism might hold out the possibility that desire can be cultivated toward a metaphysical absolute. Full of such insights, Upton’s book represents an important intervention in modernist studies.
Download or read book Papers on T S Eliot written by Amar Nath Dwivedi and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book T S Eliot in Context written by Jason Harding and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot's work demands much from his readers. The more the reader knows about his allusions and range of cultural reference, the more rewarding are his poems, essays and plays. This book is carefully designed to provide an authoritative and coherent examination of those contexts essential to the fullest understanding of his challenging and controversial body of work. It explores a broad range of subjects relating to Eliot's life and career; key literary, intellectual, social and historical contexts; as well as the critical reception of his oeuvre. Taken together, these chapters sharpen critical appreciation of Eliot's writings and present a comprehensive, composite portrait of one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent men of letters. Drawing on original research, T. S. Eliot in Context is a timely contribution to an exciting reassessment of Eliot's life and works, and will provide a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, students and general readers.
Download or read book The T S Eliot Studies Annual written by John D. Morgenstern and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the new edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays. All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, or editor. John D. Morgenstern, General Editor Editorial Advisory Board: Ronald Bush, University of Oxford David E. Chinitz, Loyola University Chicago Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina–Greensboro Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews Frances Dickey, University of Missouri John Haffenden, University of Sheffield Benjamin G. Lockerd, Grand Valley State University Gail McDonald, Goldsmiths, University of London Gabrielle McIntire, Queen’s University Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia Christopher Ricks, Boston University Ronald Schuchard, Emory University Vincent Sherry, Washington University at St. Louis
Download or read book New Horizons in Eastern Humanism written by Tu Weiming and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China now attracts global attention in direct proportion to its increasing economic and geopolitical power. But for millennia, the philosophy which has shaped the soul of China is not modern Communism, or even new forms of capitalism, but rather Confucianism. And one of the most striking phenomena relating to China's ascendancy on the world stage is a burgeoning interest, throughout Asia and beyond, in the humanistic culture and values that underlie Chinese politics and finance: particularly the thought of Confucius passed on in the Analects. In this stimulating conversation, two leading thinkers from the Confucian and Buddhist traditions discuss the timely relevance of a rejuvenated Confucian ethics to some of the most urgent issues in the modern world: Sino/Japanese/US relations; the transformation of society through education and dialogue; and the role of world religions in promoting human flourishing. Exploring correspondences between the Confucian and Buddhist world-views, the interlocutors commit themselves to a view of spirituality and religion that, without blurring cultural difference, is focused above all on the 'universal heart': on harmony between people and nature that leads to peace and to a hopeful future for all humanity.
Download or read book T S Eliot and Indic Traditions written by Cleo McNelly Kearns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.
Download or read book T S Eliot Dante and the Idea of Europe written by Paul Douglass and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante's profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore Dante's importance through a focus on Eliot. Probing the questions what Eliot made of Dante, and what Dante meant to Eliot, the essays here assess the legacy of modernism by engaging its "classicist" roots, covering a wide spectrum of topics stemming from Dante's relevance to the poetry and criticism of Eliot. The essays reflect on Eliot's aesthetic, philosophical, and religious convictions in relation to Dante, his influence upon literary modernism through his embracing and championing of the Florentine, and his desire to promote European unity. The first section of the book deals with aesthetic and philosophical issues related to Eliot's engagement with Dante, beginning with Jewel Spears Brooker's masterful essay on the concepts of immediate experience and primary consciousness in Eliot's work, and moving on to essays considering his idea of a "unified sensibility," as well as Eliot's engagement with Hindu-Buddhist and Christian themes and motifs. The second part of the book focuses on Dante's importance to Eliot's founding work in the modernist movement. In what ways did Dante directly and indirectly influence the exemplary path that Eliot blazed for his contemporaries, especially Ezra Pound? How early did Dante's influence show itself in Eliot's work? Why was he unable to complete the great trilogy he seems to have sought to write, based on Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso? These questions and their answers lead to the book's final section, which considers Eliot's (and Dante's) role in the formation of a twentieth-century concept of Europe. Incisive essays on Eliot's varied sources of "tradition" in his attempt to promote the idea of a European union and his anxiety over the heritage of Romanticism are capped by a magisterial contribution from Dominic Manganiello showing precisely how Eliot's reformulation of the Dantesque "European Epic" continues to influence the work of Anglo-European and Commonwealth writers.
Download or read book Analytical Buddhism written by M. Albahari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the self - a unified, separate, persisting thinker/owner/agent - exist? Drawing on Western philosophy, neurology and Theravadin Buddhism, this book argues that the self is an illusion created by a tier of non-illusory consciousness and a tier of desire-driven thought and emotion, and that separateness underpins the self's illusory status.
Download or read book Advaita Ved nta written by Eliot Deutsch and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advaita Vedānta is the most important philosophical system in India. It involves a discipline of spiritual experience as well as a technical philosophy, and since the time of Samkara in the ninth century some of the greatest intellects in India have contributed to its development. In his reconstruction of Advaita Vedānta, Eliot Deutsch has lifted the system out of its historical/cultural context and has concentrated attention on those ideas which have enduring philosophical value. He has sought to formulate systematically one's understanding of what is of universal philosophical interest in Vedantic thought. Professor Deutsch's work covers the basic metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical ideas of Vedānta. Students and scholars of Western as well as of Indian philosophy will be interested in the lucid, organized manner in which the material is presented and in the fresh interpretations given. The book is written in a critical rather than simply "pious" spirit and should thus also be of interest to anyone interested in deepening his or her appreciation and understanding of the richness of Indian thought.
Download or read book Becoming T S Eliot written by Jayme Stayer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did an ordinary, if intelligent, boy who wrote unremarkable poems become—with no help, and in record time—the author of one of the most significant and beloved poems of the twentieth century? T. S. Eliot's juvenilia show little inclination to question the social, cultural, religious, or domestic values he had inherited. How did a young man who wrote uninspired doggerel about wilting flowers transform himself—in a mere twenty months—into the author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? In Becoming T. S. Eliot, Jayme Stayer—praised by Christopher Ricks as a scholar who is "scrupulous in acknowledging the contingencies that will always preclude perfection"—explains this staggering accomplishment by tracing Eliot's artistic and intellectual development. Relying on archival research and original analysis, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Inventions of the March Hare, Eliot's youthful notebook, which was once thought lost but was rediscovered after Eliot's death. Stayer places Eliot's verses in the chronological order of their composition, teasing out the narratives of their making. Focusing on the period from 1909 to 1915, this incisive portrait of Eliot as a budding writer is as much a study of Eliot himself as it is a study of how a writer hones his voice.
Download or read book T S Eliot Poetry and Earth written by Etienne Terblanche and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot enjoyed a profound relationship with Earth. Criticism of his work does not suggest that this exists in his poetic oeuvre. Writing into this gap, Etienne Terblanche demonstrates that Eliot presents Earth as a process in which humans immerse themselves. The Waste Land and Four Quartets in particular re-locate the modern reader towards mindfulness of Earth’s continuation and one’s radical becoming within that process. But what are the potential implications for ecocriticism? Based on its careful reading of the poems from a new material perspective, this book shows how vital it has become for ecocriticism to be skeptical about the extent of its skepticism, to follow instead the twentieth century’s most important poet who, at the end of searing skepticism, finds affirmation of Earth, art, and real presence.
Download or read book The Poetry of T S Eliot written by B.M. Mishra and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetry Of T.S. Eliot Is An Incisive Interpretation Of Eliot S Poetry In The Indian Context Vis-A-Vis The Views Of Western Critics In So Far As The Christian Coloration Of His Poetry Is Concerned. A Good Deal Of Light Is Thrown On The Early, Middle And Later Poetry Of Eliot. A Special Emphasis Has Been Laid On The Genesis And Culminating Experience Of Eliot As A Man And As An Artist.
Download or read book T S Eliot and Mysticism written by Paul Murray and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the composition of Four Quartets, in relation to mysticism, constitutes an interesting chapter in modern literary history. T.S. Eliot drew his inspiration not only from the literature of orthodox Christian mysticism and from a variety of Hindu and Buddhist sources, but also from the literature of the occult, and from several unexpected and so far unacknowledged sources such as the mystical symbolism of Shakespeare's later plays and the visionary poetry of Rudyard Kipling. The primary concern of this study is not with the sources as such, nor with an area somewhere behind the work, but rather with that point in Four Quartets where Eliot's own mystical attitude and his poetry unite and intersect.
Download or read book Tracing T S Eliot s Spirit written by Anthony David Moody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot's lifelong quest for a world of the spirit is the theme of this book by leading Eliot scholar A. David Moody. The first four essays in the collection map Eliot's spiritual geography: the American taproot of his poetry, his profound engagement with the philosophy and religion of India, his near and yet detached relations with England, and his problematic cultivation of a European mind. At the centre of the collection is a study of the Latin poem Pervigilium Veneris, a fragment of which figures enigmatically in the concluding lines of The Waste Land. The third part of the collection is a set of five investigations of Eliot's poems, dealing particularly with The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets, and attending to how they express and shape what he called 'the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being'.
