The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780674931503

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Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot invites us to "start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it does or ought to do, or of what use it is; and try to find out, in examining the relation of poetry to criticism, what the use of both of them is."


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Download or read book The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot invites us to "start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it does or ought to do, or of what use it is; and try to find out, in examining the relation of poetry to criticism, what the use of both of them is."


Poetics and Literary Theory of T. S. Eliot

Poetics and Literary Theory of T. S. Eliot

Author: Samiran Kumar Paul

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 1636337147

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This is a critical handbook on T. S. Eliot’s poetical works and verse dramas with their text and critical interpretation for students of Asian and African countries. An exhaustive discussion is made through critical analysis of Eliot’s literary personality as a poet and theorist. Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction, style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and in a series of critical essays, he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones. The publication of Four Quartets led to his recognition as the greatest living English poet and man of letters, and in 1948 he was awarded both the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eliot was to pursue four careers: editor, dramatist, literary critic, and philosophical poet. He was probably the most erudite poet of his time in the English language. His undergraduate poems were “literary” and conventional. His first important publication, and the first masterpiece of Modernism in English, was “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The poem “The Waste Land” is known for its obscure nature—its slippage between satire and prophecy; its abrupt changes of speaker, location, and time. Eliot’s concern with faith and doubt, chaos and calamity and decline in the sensibility of the modern people is reflected through his poems and plays. Modernity and the sense for the modernist make him unparalleled and the most popular modern poet. His great musical sense in his poetry reminds of his use of rhymes, metre and rhythm. This rimming of poetry with music brings meaningful beauty and concept.


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Download or read book Poetics and Literary Theory of T. S. Eliot written by Samiran Kumar Paul and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical handbook on T. S. Eliot’s poetical works and verse dramas with their text and critical interpretation for students of Asian and African countries. An exhaustive discussion is made through critical analysis of Eliot’s literary personality as a poet and theorist. Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction, style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and in a series of critical essays, he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones. The publication of Four Quartets led to his recognition as the greatest living English poet and man of letters, and in 1948 he was awarded both the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eliot was to pursue four careers: editor, dramatist, literary critic, and philosophical poet. He was probably the most erudite poet of his time in the English language. His undergraduate poems were “literary” and conventional. His first important publication, and the first masterpiece of Modernism in English, was “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. The poem “The Waste Land” is known for its obscure nature—its slippage between satire and prophecy; its abrupt changes of speaker, location, and time. Eliot’s concern with faith and doubt, chaos and calamity and decline in the sensibility of the modern people is reflected through his poems and plays. Modernity and the sense for the modernist make him unparalleled and the most popular modern poet. His great musical sense in his poetry reminds of his use of rhymes, metre and rhythm. This rimming of poetry with music brings meaningful beauty and concept.


Eliot's Objective Correlative

Eliot's Objective Correlative

Author: Flemming Olsen

Publisher: Apollo Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781845195540

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T.S. Eliot's dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted, but rarely analyzed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input has to be processed by the poet's intellect. Respect for control of feelings and order of presentation were central to Eliot's conception of literary criticism. The result - the objective correlative - is not one word, but "a scene" or "a chain of events." Eliot's thinking was also inspired by late 19th-century French critics, like Gautier and Gourmont, whose terminology he not infrequently borrowed. But he chose the term "objective" out of respect for the prestige that still surrounded the Positivist paradigm. In its break-away from Positivist dogmas, criticism of art in the early 20th century was very much preoccupied with form. In poetry, that meant focus on the use and function of the word. That focus is perceptible everywhere in Eliot's criticism. Even though the idea of the objective correlative was not an original one, Eliot's treatment of it is interesting because he sees a seeming truism ("the right word in the right place") in a new light. He never developed the theory, but the thought is traceable in several of his critical essays. On account of its categorical and rudimentary form, the theory is not unproblematic: whose fault is it if the reader's response does not square with the poet's intention? And indeed, T.S. Eliot's own practice belies his theory - witness the multifarious legitimate interpretations of his poems.


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Download or read book Eliot's Objective Correlative written by Flemming Olsen and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.S. Eliot's dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted, but rarely analyzed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input has to be processed by the poet's intellect. Respect for control of feelings and order of presentation were central to Eliot's conception of literary criticism. The result - the objective correlative - is not one word, but "a scene" or "a chain of events." Eliot's thinking was also inspired by late 19th-century French critics, like Gautier and Gourmont, whose terminology he not infrequently borrowed. But he chose the term "objective" out of respect for the prestige that still surrounded the Positivist paradigm. In its break-away from Positivist dogmas, criticism of art in the early 20th century was very much preoccupied with form. In poetry, that meant focus on the use and function of the word. That focus is perceptible everywhere in Eliot's criticism. Even though the idea of the objective correlative was not an original one, Eliot's treatment of it is interesting because he sees a seeming truism ("the right word in the right place") in a new light. He never developed the theory, but the thought is traceable in several of his critical essays. On account of its categorical and rudimentary form, the theory is not unproblematic: whose fault is it if the reader's response does not square with the poet's intention? And indeed, T.S. Eliot's own practice belies his theory - witness the multifarious legitimate interpretations of his poems.


Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet

Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet

Author: Ranjan Ghosh

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-12-08

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1317576683

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Critiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu – and philosophies of creativity that are rarely studied side by side. Ghosh carves out unexplored spaces of negotiation and intersections between literature, aesthetics and philosophy. The book demonstrates an original method of ‘global comparison’ that displaces the relatively staid and historicist categories that have underpinned comparative literature approaches so far, since they rarely dare stray beyond issues of influence and schools, or new 'world literature' approaches that affirm cosmopolitanism and transnationalism as overarching themes. Going beyond comparatism and reformulating the chronological patterns of reading, this bold book introduces new methodologies of reading literature to configure the concept of the poet from Philip Sidney to T. S Eliot, reading the notion of the poet through completely new theoretical and epistemic triggers. Commonly known texts and sometimes well-circulated ideas are subjected to refreshing reading in what the author calls the ‘transcultural now’ and (in)fusionised transpoetical matrices. By moving between theories of poetry and literature that come from widely separated times, contexts, and cultures, this book shows the relevance of canonical texts to a theory of the future as marked by post-global concerns.


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Download or read book Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet written by Ranjan Ghosh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu – and philosophies of creativity that are rarely studied side by side. Ghosh carves out unexplored spaces of negotiation and intersections between literature, aesthetics and philosophy. The book demonstrates an original method of ‘global comparison’ that displaces the relatively staid and historicist categories that have underpinned comparative literature approaches so far, since they rarely dare stray beyond issues of influence and schools, or new 'world literature' approaches that affirm cosmopolitanism and transnationalism as overarching themes. Going beyond comparatism and reformulating the chronological patterns of reading, this bold book introduces new methodologies of reading literature to configure the concept of the poet from Philip Sidney to T. S Eliot, reading the notion of the poet through completely new theoretical and epistemic triggers. Commonly known texts and sometimes well-circulated ideas are subjected to refreshing reading in what the author calls the ‘transcultural now’ and (in)fusionised transpoetical matrices. By moving between theories of poetry and literature that come from widely separated times, contexts, and cultures, this book shows the relevance of canonical texts to a theory of the future as marked by post-global concerns.


To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings

To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780803267213

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These influential essay and lectures by T. S. Eliot span nearly a half century--from 1917, when he published The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, to 1961, four years before his death. With the luminosity and clarity of a first-rate intellect, Eliot considers the uses of literary criticism, the writers who had the greatest influence on his own work, and the importance of being truly educated. Every thoughtful person who yearns to do more than simply get through the day will be reinforced by The Aims of Education. Other pieces include To Criticize the Critic, From Poe to Valäry, American Literature and the American Language, What Dante Means to Me, The Literature of Politics, The Classics and the Man of Letters, Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry, and Reflections on Vers Libre.


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Download or read book To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These influential essay and lectures by T. S. Eliot span nearly a half century--from 1917, when he published The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, to 1961, four years before his death. With the luminosity and clarity of a first-rate intellect, Eliot considers the uses of literary criticism, the writers who had the greatest influence on his own work, and the importance of being truly educated. Every thoughtful person who yearns to do more than simply get through the day will be reinforced by The Aims of Education. Other pieces include To Criticize the Critic, From Poe to Valäry, American Literature and the American Language, What Dante Means to Me, The Literature of Politics, The Classics and the Man of Letters, Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry, and Reflections on Vers Libre.


On Poetry and Poets

On Poetry and Poets

Author: T. S. Eliot

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-07-07

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0374531978

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T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as "The Three Voices of Poetry," "Poetry and Drama," and "What Is Minor Poetry?" as well as the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats. As he writes in "The Music of Poetry," "We must expect a time to come when poetry will have again to be recalled to speech. The same problems arise, and always in new forms; and poetry has always before it . . . an ‘endless adventure.'"


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Download or read book On Poetry and Poets written by T. S. Eliot and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as "The Three Voices of Poetry," "Poetry and Drama," and "What Is Minor Poetry?" as well as the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats. As he writes in "The Music of Poetry," "We must expect a time to come when poetry will have again to be recalled to speech. The same problems arise, and always in new forms; and poetry has always before it . . . an ‘endless adventure.'"


T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

Author: Sunil Kumar Sarker

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9788171565627

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The Genius Of T.S. Eliot Contributed Immensely In Ushering Modernism In Poetry, Play And Literary Criticism. Therefore, Our Knowledge Of Modernism Will Remain Incomplete Should We Fail To Understand Eliot. This Book May Serve As An Introduction To Eliot, The Man, The Poet, The Playwright And The Critic. For The Benefit Of Readers, It Quotes In Full, While Introducing And Explaining, The Poet S Master-Pieces, The Waste Land And Four Quartets, And Also Some Of His Other Great Poems. Further, It Discusses About All Of His Five Major Plays, And Nine Important Essays, At Some Length.


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Download or read book T.S. Eliot written by Sunil Kumar Sarker and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2000 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Genius Of T.S. Eliot Contributed Immensely In Ushering Modernism In Poetry, Play And Literary Criticism. Therefore, Our Knowledge Of Modernism Will Remain Incomplete Should We Fail To Understand Eliot. This Book May Serve As An Introduction To Eliot, The Man, The Poet, The Playwright And The Critic. For The Benefit Of Readers, It Quotes In Full, While Introducing And Explaining, The Poet S Master-Pieces, The Waste Land And Four Quartets, And Also Some Of His Other Great Poems. Further, It Discusses About All Of His Five Major Plays, And Nine Important Essays, At Some Length.


On Poetry and Poets

On Poetry and Poets

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher:

Published: 1957-01-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780571089833

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The Nobel Prize-winning poet's literary essays and lectures on Virgil, Sir John Davies, Milton, Johnson, Byron, Goethe, Kipling, Yeats, and the art of poetry.


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Download or read book On Poetry and Poets written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1957-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning poet's literary essays and lectures on Virgil, Sir John Davies, Milton, Johnson, Byron, Goethe, Kipling, Yeats, and the art of poetry.


The Sacred Wood

The Sacred Wood

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher:

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Critical Study Of T.s. EliotEliot At 100 Years

Critical Study Of T.s. EliotEliot At 100 Years

Author: D.K. Rampal

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9788126902965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot, A Universal Poet And Dramatist, And Nobel Laureate, Was One Of The Most Daring Innovators Of The 20Th Century Poetry. He Achieved The Most Dominant Position In Poetry And Literary Criticism In The English-Speaking World.T.S. Eliot Represents The High Water-Mark Of The Modernist Movement In European Literature Which Affected Art And Culture Not Only Within The English-Speaking World, Or The European Lands, But Around The Four Corners Of The Globe. He Was A Poet, A Dramatist And A Critic Of Literature And Society.He Dominated The Literary And Cultural Scene During Most Of The Twentieth Century. Though The World Is Now Said To Have Entered Into, What Is Usually Called, The Post-Modernist Stage, Yet Modernism Is Still Relevant. Whether Post-Modernism Is Considered To Be A Break With, Or The Continuation Of, Modernism, The Latter Occupies A Central Place In The Whole Dialectics Of The Cultural Movement Of The 20Th Century.The Present Volume Is An In-Depth Critical Study Of The Whole Oeuvre Of T.S. Eliot By Diverse Hands. This Is A Must For The Students, Teachers, Scholars Of Culture And Modern English Literature.


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Download or read book Critical Study Of T.s. EliotEliot At 100 Years written by D.K. Rampal and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Stearns Eliot, A Universal Poet And Dramatist, And Nobel Laureate, Was One Of The Most Daring Innovators Of The 20Th Century Poetry. He Achieved The Most Dominant Position In Poetry And Literary Criticism In The English-Speaking World.T.S. Eliot Represents The High Water-Mark Of The Modernist Movement In European Literature Which Affected Art And Culture Not Only Within The English-Speaking World, Or The European Lands, But Around The Four Corners Of The Globe. He Was A Poet, A Dramatist And A Critic Of Literature And Society.He Dominated The Literary And Cultural Scene During Most Of The Twentieth Century. Though The World Is Now Said To Have Entered Into, What Is Usually Called, The Post-Modernist Stage, Yet Modernism Is Still Relevant. Whether Post-Modernism Is Considered To Be A Break With, Or The Continuation Of, Modernism, The Latter Occupies A Central Place In The Whole Dialectics Of The Cultural Movement Of The 20Th Century.The Present Volume Is An In-Depth Critical Study Of The Whole Oeuvre Of T.S. Eliot By Diverse Hands. This Is A Must For The Students, Teachers, Scholars Of Culture And Modern English Literature.