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T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (Paperback, New edition)
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T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (Paperback, New edition)
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The modernist poet T. S. Eliot has been applauded and denounced for
decades as a staunch champion of high art and an implacable
opponent of popular culture. But Eliot's elitism was never what it
seemed. "T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide" refurbishes this
great writer for the twenty-first century, presenting him as the
complex figure he was, an artist attentive not only to literature
but to detective fiction, vaudeville theater, jazz, and the songs
of Tin Pan Alley.
David Chinitz argues that Eliot was productively engaged with
popular culture in some form at every stage of his career, and that
his response to it, as expressed in his poetry, plays, and essays,
was ambivalent rather than hostile. He shows that American jazz,
for example, was a major influence on Eliot's poetry during its
maturation. He discusses Eliot's surprisingly persistent interest
in popular culture both in such famous works as "The Waste Land"
and in such lesser-known pieces as "Sweeney Agonistes," And he
traces Eliot's long, quixotic struggle to close the widening gap
between high art and popular culture through a new type of public
art: contemporary popular verse drama.
What results is a work that will persuade adherents and detractors
alike to return to Eliot and find in him a writer who liked a good
show, a good thriller, and a good tune, as well as a "great" poem.
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