More than a century after his earliest works were published, T.S.
Eliot remains one of the world's most celebrated--and highly
enigmatic--20th century poets. He is often cited as an authority on
modern art, philosophy, and religion, despite the fact that his
words are cited in an overwhelming variety of conflicting contexts.
An understanding of Eliot's work, then, requires knowledge of his
attempts to assimilate many different ideas during his time as a
Harvard University student, a struggling poet in World War I
London, and an eventual spokesman for the Anglican Church.
This chronological survey of major influences on Eliot's
worldview covers the poet's spiritual and intellectual evolution in
stages, by trying to see the world as Eliot did. The first half of
the book examines his childhood influences as well as the literary
influences that inspired him to write his earliest poetry. These
chapters examine Eliot's formal education, including his years as
an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he focused on the
Western canon and came to understand his own writing as the product
of a cumulative literary tradition. The second half of the book
tracks Eliot's life as an American expatriate living in London from
1915 to 1930, studying his ill-fated marriage and his intellectual
engagement with the literary traditions of his new country. This
section also finds the poet examining his identity as a European in
the aftermath of World War I--an examination which, coupled with
personal crisis, produced his masterpiece The Waste Land. The final
chapters reveal the ways in which Eliot's intellectual pursuits
fostered a spiritual rebirth that simultaneously reflected his past
and revealed his future, demonstrating how the early Romantic
revolutionary became a staunch defender of tradition.
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