T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot is said to be one of the most influential modernist poets of our time. His poetry, although very complex is the subject of literary classes and discussions around the world. His poems “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land” are not only alike in his literary style.
Eliot's essays were a major factor in the revival of interest in the metaphysical poets. Eliot particularly praised the metaphysical poets' ability to show experience as both psychological and sensual, while at the same time infusing this portrayal with—in Eliot's view—wit and uniqueness.. Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot, edited by Frank.
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism T.S. Eliot Eliot’s collection of essays on poetry and criticism covers such masters of verse as Dante and Blake as well as his critical views of poetic drama, rhetoric, blank verse and other critics such as Ben Johnson, Swinburne and Phillip Massinger.
Selected Essays T S Eliot For this volume Eliot gathered together his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since when he became assistant editor of The Egoist In his preface to the third. Selected Essays. T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot. Primary Menu. Search for: Selected Essays. T.S. Eliot.
T.S. Eliot was the dominant figure in modernist literature not just because of his poetry, but also because of his criticism which changed our view of English literature in ways which can still be felt today. He resurrected the forgotten John Donne and had him eclipse John Milton as idol of poetry. He showed that Shakespeare was not the only.
This essay by T.S. Eliot on the poetry style of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) was first published in the Times Literary Supplement, March 31, 1921. In 1932 it was re-published in Eliot's book Selected Essays. Notes: Eliot mentions Marvell's The Nymph and the Fawn. This is also known as The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn.
As Mr. Wilson indicates, the essays of T. S. Eliot have had a remarkable and abiding influence in particular tendencies of the contemporary study and appreciation of English literature. His essays on the Elizabethan dramatists, for example, have rescued some of the most notable Elizabethans from ill-merited oblivion and have reestablished others.
In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: 'For myself this book is a kind of historical record of my interests and opinions.' The text includes some of his most important criticism.
T.S. Eliot, the 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as a poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor and publisher. In 1910 and 1911, while still a college student, he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and other poems that are landmarks in the history of literature.