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.
Influenced by Eliot
's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people.
Gopal, N. Raj. A Critical Study of the Novels of Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors.
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It is structured as a four...
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Graham Greene
His work was heavily influenced by that of T. S. Eliot
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Betty Miller
Modernist in style, the book is divided into four sections: Breakfast Time, Lunch Time, Tea Time, and Dinner Time. Though these titles are uncompromisingly human-centric, the London house in Westbourne Grove...
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Elizabeth Jennings
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...
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Anne Ridler
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.
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It was an important feature of the volume, ranging itself alongside such prestigious Shakespeare critics...
The title opens an epigraph of three lines of poetry attributed to Anon but actually written by RM
herself. T. S. Eliot
's The Waste Land supplied another epigraph.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
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Muriel Spark
During the year 1951 MS
wrote another verse drama, this time parodic and satirical, aimed at T. S. Eliot
and Christopher Fry
: she called it The Cocktail's not for Drinking. It reached proof...
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Ruth Pitter
In 1936 RP
and Michael Head
had published The Matron Cat's Song, for which she wrote the lyric and he the music. (In 1972 Beryl Price
published musical settings for A Cycle of Cats...
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Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce
, SB
did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
In the early 1920s MM
was already an influential New York reviewer, who covered such landmark texts as T. S. Eliot
's The Sacred Wood, 1921, Bryher
's first novel, Development, also in...
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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...
