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T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature (Hardcover)
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T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature (Hardcover)
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T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature, for the first time,
considers the full imaginative and moral engagement of one of the
most influential poets of the twentieth century, T.S. Eliot, with
the Early Modern period of literature in English (1580-1630). This
engagement haunted Eliot's poetry and critical writing across his
career, and would have a profound impact on subsequent poetry
across the world, as well as upon academic literary criticism, and
wider cultural perceptions. To this end, the book elucidates and
contextualizes several facets of Eliot's thinking and its impact:
through establishment of his original and eclectic understanding of
the Early Modern period in relation to the literary and critical
source materials available to him; through consideration of
uncollected and archival materials, which suggest a need to
reassess established readings of the poet's career; and through
attention to Eliot's resonant formulations about the period in
consequent literary, critical and artistic arenas. To the end of
his life, Eliot had to fend off the presumption that he had, in
some way, 'invented' the Early Modern period for the modern age.
Yet the presumption holds some force - it is famously and
influentially an implication running through Eliot's essays on that
earlier period, and through his many references to its writings in
his poetry, that the Early Modern period formed the most exact
historical analogy for the apocalyptic events (and consequent
social, cultural and literary turmoil) of the first half of the
twentieth-century. T.S. Eliot and Early Modern Literature gives a
comprehensive sense of the vital engagement of this
self-consciously modern poet with the earlier period he always
declared to be his favourite.
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