A Companion to T. S. Eliot by Chinitz, David E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Title page Copyright page Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgments to Sources Abbreviations Used for Works by T. S. Eliot Part I: Influences

1 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot’s Life

Boston and the Mind of Europe, 1906–1915 Toward The Waste Land, 1916–1921 After The Waste Land, 1922–1930 “Into the Rose-Garden,” 1932–1939 War and the Quartets, 1939–1947 The Smiling Public Man, 1943–1965

2 Eliot’s Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations

“Tradition and the Individual Talent” Talent and the Individual Tradition Orthodoxy and the Individual Heresy

3 T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist City

Symbolism and the City Eliot’s Decadent Initiation Cultural Spaces Urban Anthropology

4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism

The Ten Thousand Things Return to the One Where Does the One Return? Narrative Structure(s) in The Waste Land “Several Kinds of Sanatoria”: Buddhism in the Plays

5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy 6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture

“An artificial and unimportant distinction” Culture Contact Artists and Audiences Broadway and Beyond

7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology

The Anthropological Method Mystical Mentality Dissociation The Definition of Culture

8 “Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”: Imperial Decline and Eliot’s Development

The Singing Schools of Decadence War, Empire, and the Lexicons of Decadence The Waste Land: Dracula’s Shadow

Part II: Works

9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare

Searching for Precedents: The Juvenilia Searching for a Voice Searching for Meaning Searching for an Audience Voice, Theme, and Audience: Two Poems

10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour

Publication and Reception Background and Major Sources “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “Portrait of a Lady,” “Conversation Galante,” and “La Figlia che Piange” “Preludes,” “Rhapsody on a Windy Night,” and “Morning at the Window” “The Boston Evening Transcript,” “Aunt Helen,” “Cousin Nancy,” “Mr. Apollinax,” and “Hysteria”

11 Disambivalent Quatrains 12 “Gerontion”: The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot

A Postwar Vacuum Versions of Exile

13 “Fishing, with the arid plain behind me”: Difficulty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land 14 The Enigma of “The Hollow Men”

An In-Between Poem Orientation through Allusion Disorientation through Language Reorientation through Criticism

15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl

“Toward a New Form” A Mostly Flat Party Agon Without End

16 “Having to construct”: Dissembly Lines in the “Ariel” Poems and Ash-Wednesday

The Ariel Poems Ash-Wednesday

17 “The inexplicable mystery of sound”: Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses

Coriolan Minor Poems Occasional Verses

18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets 19 “Away we go”: Poetry and Play in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats 20 Eliot’s 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion

The Rock Murder in the Cathedral The Family Reunion

21 Eliot’s “Divine” Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman

The Cocktail Party The Confidential Clerk The Elder Statesman Evaluation

22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927

Canon Professionalism Knowledge Tradition

23 He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 24 In Times of Emergency: Eliot’s Social Criticism

The French Connection – and the English The Idea of a Christian Society Notes towards the Definition of Culture

Part III: Contexts

25 Eliot’s Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics 26 T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism

Defining and Historicizing Modernism Eliot and the Material Historical Production of Modernist Difficulty Restoring Eliot to the “Fuller Context” of Modernism, Restoring Complexity to Eliot

27 Conflict and Concealment: Eliot’s Approach to Women and Gender

The Struggle for Masculinity: Gender Roles in the Early Poems Seductive, Manipulative, Pathetic: Images of Women before 1927 A Revision of the Pattern: Women in Eliot’s Later Work

28 Eliot and “Race”: Jews, Irish, and Blacks

Eliot and “Free-thinking Jews”: The Prose Works Eliot and “the Jews”: The Poetry Sweeney: Eliot and “the Irish” King Bolo: Eliot and “the Blacks”

29 “The pleasures of higher vices”: Sexuality in Eliot’s Work

From Lower to Higher Vices The Critical Climate

30 “An occupation for the saint”: Eliot as a Religious Thinker

Moments in and out of Time “Spilt Religion” Orthodoxy and its Discontents

31 Eliot’s Politics 32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot’s Editorship of the Criterion 33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher

Right Place, Right Time Shaping the High Modernist Canon The Next Generation

34 Eliot and the New Critics 35 “T. S. Eliot rates socko!”: Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity 36 Eliot’s Critical Reception: “The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry”

Eliot among the Reviewers Early Approaches Entering the Books Establishing Standard Readings

37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Influence: The Waste Land

Bibliography of Works by T. S. Eliot Index

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