T. S. Eliot : Man and Poet, vol. 1
T. S. Eliot: Man and Poet is the 11th book in the National Poetry Foundation’s Man/Woman and Poet Series and the fourth commemorative centennial work. Its tone is鈥攁ppropriately鈥攃elebratory. More than one hundred years after his birth (and twenty-five years after his death), Thomas Steams Eliot remains arguably the leading English or American poet of the twentieth century and the author of undeniably its most influential poem. His poetry and criticism were so rapidly and completely enshrined that they鈥攁nd the New Critical principles of interpretation that they engendered鈥攄ominated both poetry and its analysis until well into the 1970s. The echoes of his influence still resound.
The twenty-two essays in this collection testify to the wealth of contemporary criticism and also to the still rich potential of Eliot’s work. The articles, which cover his poetry, plays, and criticism, range widely in both subject and method.
Volume One contains contributions by: Richard Badenhausen, Shyamal Bagchee, Joseph Bentley, Jewel Spears Brooker, Ronald Bush, Barbara Everett, Harvey Gross, Joan Fillmore Hooker, Cleo McNelly Keams, Hugh Kenner, Edward Lobb, James Longenbach, Louis Martz, James E. Miller, Jr., A. D. Moody, Russell Elliott Murphy, Jeffrey M. Peri, J. P. Riquelrne, Sanford Schwartz, Mohammad Shaheen, Richard Shusterman, and W. B. Worthen.
Contents
鈥淎 Shape and a Significance鈥: Eliot鈥檚 Works in General
A.D. Moody, 鈥淓liot鈥檚 Formal Invention鈥
Ronald Bush, 鈥溾楾urned Toward Creation鈥: T.S. Eliot, 1988鈥
James Longenbach, 鈥淯ncanny Eliot鈥
Hugh Kenner, 鈥淓liot and the Voices of History鈥
Russell Elliott Murphy, 鈥淓liot鈥檚 Grandchildren: The Poet of The Waste Land and the Generation of the Sixities鈥
Shyamal Bagchee, 鈥淓liot鈥檚 鈥極nly鈥 (and 鈥楢ll鈥)鈥
鈥淭he Whole of Literature: A Simultaneous Existence鈥: Eliot and Foreign Works
Harvey Gross, 鈥淐ompound Ghost, Triple Devil, Terminal Books鈥
Joan Fillmore Hooker, 鈥淰isions and Revisions: 鈥楪erontion鈥 in French鈥
Mohammad Shaheen, 鈥淓liot in Modern Arabic Poetry鈥
鈥淭he Three Voices鈥: Eliot鈥檚 Individual Works
Early Poetry
Edward Lobb, 鈥淐hamber Music: Eliot鈥檚 Closed Rooms and Difficult Women鈥
The Waste Land
Joseph Bentley and Jewel Spears Brooker, 鈥淗ow to Read the End of The Waste Land鈥
Ash-Wednesday
Louis L. Martz, 鈥Ash-Wednesday: Voices for the Veiled Sister鈥
Four Quartets
Barbara Everett, 鈥East Coker: The Village of the Heart鈥
Cleo McNelly Kearns, 鈥淒octrine and Wisdom in Four Quartets鈥
James E. Miller, Jr., 鈥Four Quartets and an 鈥楢cute Personal Reminiscence鈥欌
Drama
Richard Badenhausen, 鈥溾榃hen the Poet Speaks Only for Himself鈥: The Chorus as 鈥楩irst Voice鈥 in Murder in the Cathedral鈥
W.B. Worthen, 鈥Murder in the Cathedral and the Work of Acting鈥
鈥淎 Distinctive Activity of the Civilized Mind鈥: Eliot鈥檚 Criticism
J. P. Riquelme, 鈥淎esthetic Values and Processes in Eliot, Arnold, and the Romantics鈥
Sanford Schwartz, 鈥淭.S. Eliot and the Revolt Against Dualism: His Dissertation on F.H. Bradley in Its Intellectual Context鈥
Jeffrey M. Perl, 鈥淎 Post-War Consensus鈥
Richard Shusterman, 鈥淩eactionary Meets Radical Critique: Eliot and Contemporary Cultural Criticism鈥