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.
This volume contains four lectures given by the Leavises at Harvard
and Cornell
, three of which are by F. R. Leavis: Luddites? or, There is Only One Culture, Eliot
's Classical Standing...
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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...
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Marianne Moore
White argues that Moore was essentially two separate poets, pre- and post-World War Two. She chooses to present the earlier one of the two, the poet whom Eliot
, Stevens
, Williams
, and Bishop
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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 press issued this little book on the same day as Eliot
's Poems and John Middleton Murry
's The Critic in Judgment.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
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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, 1973.
prelims
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Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970.
These volumes were milestones in the development of English modernism, posing a serious challenge to the poetic orthodoxies of the day, through verbal music, incongruous imagery, and a touch of surrealism, rather than the understatement...
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Vita Sackville-West
VSW
followed her Behn biography two years later with Andrew Marvell, to open Faber and Faber
's series The Poets on the Poets (in which the second volume was provided by Eliot
writing on Dante
).
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Doris Lessing
DL
published, in London and New York, her first novel, The Grass is Singing.
The idyllic sound of the novel's title is belied by its context in T. S. Eliot
's The Waste Land...
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Bryher
Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...
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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, 1973.
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Elizabeth Jennings
EJ
titled another poetry volume, Consequently I Rejoice, with words from T. S. Eliot
's Ash Wednesday, quoting the context of the phrase as an epigraph.
British Book News. British Council.
(1977): May insert
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Djuna Barnes
Nightwood was published in New York in March 1937 by Harcourt Brace
, with an introduction by Eliot
praising its great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization...
