Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
T. S. Eliot
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Standard Name: Eliot, T. S.
Used Form: Thomas Stearns Eliot
TSE
, an American settled in England, was the dominant voice in English poetry during the first half of the twentieth century, as well as an immensely influential critic. His early experimental poems excel at catching an atmosphere or mood, often a moment of stasis and self-doubt. The Waste Land, a brilliant collage of fragments, has been seen to express the fears of a whole society about the threatened end of culture and amenity called civilization. After Eliot's conversion to Christianity his poetry moved to sombre investigations of the spiritual life: of time, fate, decision, guilt, and reconciliation. Meanwhile his criticism grappled with the the relation of past to present in terms of the contemporary relationship to tradition. TSE
also wrote lively comic verse, and in theatrical writing he moved on from pageant and historical religious drama to symbolic representation of spiritual issues through events in banal daily life.
Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press
with a foreword by Michael Schmidt
. It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...
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Mary Butts
In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey
,
Butts, Mary. “Bloomsbury”. Modernism/Modernity, edited by Camilla Bagg et al., Vol.
5
, No. 2, pp. 32-45.
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but criticises it for relativism, artificiality, and lack of engagement with the real world. She credits Wyndham Lewis
for...
Her introduction to the first selection, she said later, was more influenced by Coleridge
than by Charles Williams
.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
96
It was an important feature of the volume, ranging itself alongside such prestigious Shakespeare critics...
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H. D.
This is war poetry which looks at the home front, like T. S. Eliot
's Four Quartets and Ezra Pound
's Pisan Cantos. It has been classified as epic.
Friedman, Susan Stanford. “’Remembering Shakespeare Always, But Remembering Him Differently’: H.D.’s By Avon River”. Sagetrieb, Vol.
2
, No. 2, pp. 45-70.
45
London under the bombing...
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Philip Larkin
His selection was resolutely unfashionable, favouring Hardy
and Betjeman
at the expense of Eliot
and Pound
. He was, however, remarkably generous in his selection of women poets (often for just one or two poems...
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Seamus Heaney
Setting out to enable his readers to witness the spectacle of a gifted writer becoming a definitive one, he begins by considering poetic theories of sound and meaning held by Frost
, Eliot
, and...
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Penelope Fitzgerald
The title may perhaps be quoted from the last line of T. S. Eliot
's The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which describes walking on the beach and hearing the mermaids' song, Till human...
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Gertrude Stein
Carl Van Vechten
edited and selected the texts to provide a sample of the various styles and periods of GS
's writings. He puts her in the same category as Joyce
, Eliot
, and...
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Virginia Woolf
VW
continued to write personal essays on a range of subjects, some weighty, some witty, but her literary and critical essays are the centre of her work in this genre. In these she wrote about...
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Sir James George Frazer
The Golden Bough, a comparative study of human beliefs from the earliest times, had a major influence on modernist writings. SJGF
's text outlines an evolving belief system, which moves from magic, to religion...
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Virginia Woolf
The article formed the basis
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
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of a paper titled Character in Fiction that VW
read to the Heretics Society
in Cambridge
on 18 May 1924. The paper was published, as Character in Fiction...
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Monica Furlong
MF
published The End of Our Exploring, a work about the spiritual life titled from T. S. Eliot
's Little Gidding, and dedicated to the memory of her father, Alfred Furlong
.
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Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton.
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May Sinclair
MS
published in The Little ReviewPrufrock, and Other Observations: A Criticism, a favourable review and analysis of T. S. Eliot
's recent volume of poetry.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Ezra Pound
For many readers of poetry, Pound's greatest achievement remains the revisions which he instigated in Eliot
's The Waste Land, which led Eliot himself to dedicate the poem to his friend as il miglior...
