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.

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Textual Production Seamus Heaney
Sweeney was a legendary king of Ireland who ran mad and was transformed into a bird. He is famous for his poetry and his madness. In literary terms he calls to mind the Irish writer...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
The article formed the basis
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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...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
Assistant editors were Richard Aldington and Leonard Compton-Rickett , and later H. D. (when Aldington went to war in June 1916) and T. S. Eliot (from July 1917). Contributors of creative work and critical reviews...
Textual Production 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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Textual Production 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.
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Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
The press issued this little book on the same day as Eliot 's Poems and John Middleton Murry 's The Critic in Judgment.
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
This suggests that QDL had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge (through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...
Textual Production Una Marson
Marson initially approached T. S. Eliot to write the preface, but he refused, so she turned to L. A. G. Strong , a British writer and a colleague at the BBC . She dedicated the...
Textual Production P. D. James
PDJ returned to detective novels with The Skull beneath the Skin, bringing back her female detective Cordelia Gray after a nine-year absence.
The title comes from the second line of Eliot 's disturbing Whispers...

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Texts

Eliot, T. S. The Elder Statesman. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Eliot, T. S. The Idea of a Christian Society. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1988.
Eliot, T. S. The Little Book of Modern Verse. Editor Ridler, Anne, Faber and Faber, 1941.
Eliot, T. S. The Metaphysical Poets. The Times Literary Supplement.
Eliot, T. S. The Sacred Wood. Methuen.
Eliot, T. S. The Sacred Wood. Methuen; Barnes and Noble, 1960.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land. Boni and Liveright.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land. Hogarth Press.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land Drafts. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1971.
Eliot, T. S. “Tradition and the Individual Talent, I”. The Egoist, Vol.
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, No. 4, pp. 54-5.