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T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature
Steven Matthews
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Description for T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature
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. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 520.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199574773
SKU
V9780199574773
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About Steven Matthews
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 ... Read more
Reviews for T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature
exceptional ... a genuine boon to Eliot scholars ... this attention to poetic method is vital and merits serious response.
Year's Work in English Studies
Compelling ... Steven Matthews's study is the first comprehensive critical work to delineate Eliot's lifelong engagement with early modern literature, a milestone made all the more remarkable by Matthews's use of contemporary source ... Read more
Year's Work in English Studies
Compelling ... Steven Matthews's study is the first comprehensive critical work to delineate Eliot's lifelong engagement with early modern literature, a milestone made all the more remarkable by Matthews's use of contemporary source ... Read more