"True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century - Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell - through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound."--Inside jacket.
"True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century - Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell - through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound."--Inside jacket
Leavis's central preoccupation here is the nature of thought and language, and the way in which thoughts are expressed in language. His supple and vigorous analysis of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" is considered by many the most valuable part of the book.
An account of T.S Eliot's early years coinciding with the publication of "Eliot's New Life" (OUP), which attempts to provide a biographical profile of the poet, as well as a critical interpretation of "The Waste Land" and other early works.
"Traces Eliot's journey across the 'waste land' to his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism at the age of thirty-eight." -- Dust jacket.
This volume provides a concise and clear guide to the complexities of T.S. Eliot's poetry, with easy to follow structure an chapters on Eliot's major texts, all in chronological order.
T.S. Eliot is one of the most celebrated twentieth-century poets and one whose work is practically synonymous with perplexity.€ Eliot is perceived as extremely challenging due to the multi-lingual references and fragmentation we find in his poetry and his recurring literary allu…
