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'.
Download or read book Four Quartets written by Richard Brock and published by . This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the spiritual themes in one of the twentieth century's literary masterpieces, the reader is introduced to the complex religious and philosophical ideas which influenced T.S. Eliot's poem. On the fiftieth anniversary of Eliot's death, ancient and medieval thinkers are merged with interwar Europe and the twenty-first century technological world. The result is a compelling retelling of Eliot's journey of spiritual transformation.
Download or read book The Spirituality of T S Eliot written by Walter Redmond and published by Aliosventos Ediciones AC. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his preface, Redmond writes: “A century ago, Thomas Sterns Eliot published The Waste Land (1922), the poem that shook the staid world of Anglo-Saxon intellectuals. Eliot thought that the hope of the renaissance, after passing through the rationality of the Enlightenment and the utopia of the 19th century, was ending in a desert of “futility and desperation”. He saw the cause as culture loss. We have broken with our deepest traditions: literary, philosophical, spiritual; we have lost our humanities, our humanity [...] Eliot never lost his pessimism. But he balanced this realism with the hopefulness obvious in his later works, especially in Four Quartets, but hinted at in The Waste Land. He spoke of a turning; we may always turn away from chaos, turn back to our roots, “fare forward”, even “beyond”. In Four Quartets, he wished to ‘retune the delicate relation of the Eternal to the transient’“. The Spirituality of T.S. Eliot is Redmond’s gloss to Eliot’s most significant poems focusing on their mysticism. Drawing on Eliot’s literary, philosophical and religious heritage, Redmond offers us the most comprehensive study of the influential Anglo-American poet’s lifelong cultivation of mystic theology. More than another work of literary criticism, Redmond has attempted in this book to explain the poems’ meaning and to point out the relevant sources necessary to understand Eliot’s spiritual background. Walter Redmond (Chicago, 1933) is a distinguished researcher and professor of philosophy and theology. He has published hundreds of articles and dozens of books on logic and Novohispanic philosophy, theological philosophy, analytic philosophy and phenomenology in German, English, Spanish, and Latin, as well as taught in various countries in Europe and America. Redmond has also translated Edith Stein's works into English and Antonio Rubio’s works on logic into Spanish.
Download or read book T S Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination written by Sarah Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and novel study of metaphor as the generative principle giving shape and substance to Eliot's poetic imagination.
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to T S Eliot written by John Xiros Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand the course of modern literature. This book provides the perfect introduction to key aspects of Eliot's life and work, as well as to the wider contexts of modernism in which he wrote. John Xiros Cooper explains how Eliot was influenced by the intellectual climate of both twentieth-century Britain and America, and how he became a key cultural figure on both sides of the Atlantic. The continuing controversies surrounding his writing and his thought are also addressed. With a useful guide to further reading, this is the most informative and accessible introduction to T. S. Eliot.
Download or read book The Spirit is Willing written by Eric James Baumann and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eliot s Early Poetry in Perspective written by C. R Mittal and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.S. Eliot Remains One Of The Most Widely Read Poets Of The 20Th Century, And Perhaps The Greatest. There Has, However, Been Quite A Dearth Of Critical Material On His Early Poetry Which Has Largely Perplexed Literary Critics. This Book Provides, For The First Time, A Lucid Exposition Of Prufrock And Other Observations 1917 And Poems 1920. Viewing The Poems In The Larger Context Of The Poet-Critic S Life And Works, It Repudiates A Great Many Assumptions About His Early Poetry, Bridges The Artificial Gulf Between The Early And The Later Work, And Makes For Greater Clarity Of Understanding. A Fascinating Study Of Eliot S Spiritual Odyssey, It Would Definitely Appeal To Lovers Of His Poetry.
Download or read book The Poetry of T S Eliot written by D. E. S. Maxwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot’s poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments. This study traces Eliot’s style from the earliest poems to the Quartets, and examines the characteristics of Eliot’s earlier work adumbrate that of his maturity. The Poetry of T. S. Eliot is essential reading for students of literature.
Download or read book The Making of T S Eliot written by Joseph Maddrey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronological survey of major influences on T.S. Eliot's worldview covers the poet's spiritual and intellectual evolution in stages, by trying to see the world as Eliot did. It examines his childhood influences as well as the literary influences that inspired him to write his earliest poetry; his life as an American expatriate living in London from 1915 to 1930, including his ill-fated marriage and his intellectual engagement with the literary traditions of his new country; and the ways in which his intellectual pursuits fostered a spiritual rebirth that simultaneously reflected his past and revealed his future, demonstrating how the early Romantic revolutionary became a staunch defender of tradition.
Download or read book T S Eliot Materialized Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth written by G. Atkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing, literature and commentary.
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 A Preface to T S Eliot written by Ron Tamplin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot is arguably the most influential poet of the 20th century, and The Waste Land one of its most significant poems. This introduction to the life and works of T.S. Eliot sets his writing clearly in the context of his times. Outlining his life and cultural background and their effect on his work, Ronald Tamplin examines his poetry and focuses in detail on three major works: The Waste Land, Four Quartets and the play, Murder in the Cathedral.
Download or read book Reading T S Eliot written by G. Atkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday.
Download or read book T S Eliot A Guide for the Perplexed written by Steve Ellis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and clear guide to the complexities of T.S.Eliot's poetry, with easy to follow structure and chapters on Eliot's major texts, all in chronological order.
Download or read book Traces of the Spirit written by Robin Sylvan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvan examines the religious dimensions of popular music subcultures, charting the influence and religious aspects of popular music in mainstream culture today.
Download or read book T S Eliot Between Two Worlds written by David Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis of this critical examination of Eliot’s work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse. This book focuses on Eliot’s peculiar eclectic approach to what he described as ‘the Tradition’. It also recognises the fact that Eliot, for all his attempts at universality, was a product of time and place, and gives an account of the way in which his education and experience shaped his most important interests. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Download or read book T S Eliot The Poems written by Martin Scofield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The poems, . . . some of the poetic drama (particularly Sweeney Agonistes), and relevant sections of prose criticism, are discussed in detail and placed in relation to the development of Eliot's oeuvre, and more briefly to his life and a wider context of philosophical and religious enquiry" --Introduction.
