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Critical attention to T. S. Eliot's works and career has surged since the early 1990s. Innovative scholarship on philosophy, gender, sexuality, and popular culture in his work, as well as renewed controversy over his politics and prejudices, attests to fresh interest in this modernist icon. At the same time, after one of the most successful runs in history, the curtain finally came down on the London and New York productions of Cats (for which eliot was posthumously awarded a Tony); Inventions of the March Hare, a fascinating collection of early poems that had been lost for decades, was finally published; and Time magazine named Eliot "Poet of the Century." A Companion to T. S. Eliot introduces a new generation of readers and educators to Eliot and covers the full breadth of his literary career. The text explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzes his body of work, and assesses his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and intellectual. The result is an analytical portrait of T. S. Eliot observed through contemporary eyes by leading Eliot scholars--providing illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century. |
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Table of Contents Notes on Contributors PART I: INFLUENCES 1. The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life (Anthony Cuda) 2. Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations (Sanford Schwartz) 3. T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist City (Barry J. Faulk) 4. Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism (Christina Hauck) 5. Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy (Jewel Spears Brooker) 6. A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture (David E. Chinitz) 7. Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology (Marc Manganaro) 8. “Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”: Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development (Vincent Sherry) PART II: WORKS 9. Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare (Jayme Stayer) 10. Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour (Frances Dickey) 11. Disambivalent Quatrains (Jeffrey M. Perl) 12. “Gerontion”: The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot (Edward Brunner) 13. “Fishing, with the arid plain behind me”: Difficulty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land (Michael Coyle) 14. The Enigma of “The Hollow Men” (Elisabeth Däumer) 15. Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl (Christine Buttram) 16. “Having to construct”: Dissembly Lines in the “Ariel” Poems and Ash-Wednesday (Tony Sharpe) 17. “The inexplicable mystery of sound”: Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses (Gareth Reeves) 18. Coming to Terms with Four Quartets (Lee Oser) 19. “Away we go”: Poetry and Play in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (Sarah Bay-Cheng) 20. Eliot's 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion (Randy Malamud) 21. Eliot's “Divine” Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman (Carol H. Smith) 22. Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927 (Leonard Diepeveen) 23. He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 (Richard Badenhausen) 24. In Times of Emergency: Eliot's Social Criticism (John Xiros Cooper) PART III: CONTEXTS 25. Eliot's Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics (Lawrence Rainey) 26. T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism (Ann Ardis) 27. Conflict and Concealment: Eliot's Approach to Women and Gender (Cyrena Pondrom) 28. Eliot and “Race”: Jews, Irish, and Blacks (Bryan Cheyette) 29. “The pleasures of higher vices”: Sexuality in Eliot's Work (Patrick Query) 30. “An occupation for the saint”: Eliot as a Religious Thinker (Kevin J. H. Dettmar) 31. Eliot's Politics (Michael Levenson) 32. Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of the Criterion (Jason Harding) 33. Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher (John Timberman Newcomb) 34. Eliot and the New Critics (Gail McDonald) 35. “T. S. Eliot rates socko!”: Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity (Aaron Jaffe) 36 . Eliot's Critical Reception: “The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry” (Nancy K. Gish) 37. Radical Innovation and Pervasive Influence: The Waste Land (James Longenbach) Bibliography of Works by T. S. Eliot
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