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OverviewThe twin concerns of primitive and metropolitan life nourished T.S. Eliot's imagination through his childhood and student years and developed to mould and underpin his writing. Ranging from Dr Sweany of St Louis and Eliot's intense interest in anthropology to his interest in Victorian urban writing and popular American models, this book throws new light on Eliot's major works, particularly on The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes. In understanding how a great poet obsessively and continually brought together `savages' and the sophisticated as well as slum-dwelling members of modern urban society, we can see his work afresh as possessing remarkable and profound excitement as well as unusual integrity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Crawford (Lecturer in Modern Scottish Literature, Lecturer in Modern Scottish Literature, University of St Andrews)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.339kg ISBN: 9780198122517ISBN 10: 0198122519 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 29 November 1990 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsWell written and coherent...It will be of use to a variety of potential readers from undergraduates through faculty. There really is nothing else comparable to it in terms of its subject matter....Recommended for all academic libraries. --Choice<br> A powerful and stimulating book. --Times Higher Education Supplement<br> Crawford has much to offer...[he] has discovered extraordinary things...[and] is a gifted young scholar. --Ronald Bush, Modern Philology<br> 'fine study' English Studies `an important contribution to the still evolving perception of Eliot's work and eminently readable' Thom Nairn, Cencrastus `it is ... from Eliot's non-literary reading that Crawford retrieves the most illuminating information' Brendan Jackson, The English Association 'an important contribution to the still evolving perception of Eliot's work and eminently readable' Cencrastus 'a powerful and stimulating book' Times Higher Educational Supplement 'Crawford's study is illuminating ... Crawford's book establishes anthropology as the major external influence on Eliot's poetry ... a new Scottish poet-critic is announced therefore, and his contribution could be immense. We could do with more' Glasgow Herald Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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