T.S. Eliot and the essay : from The sacred wood to Four quartets /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2010]
Series:Studies in Christianity and literature ; 5.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Eliot the essayist
  • Against (pure) transcendence : the essay and embodied truth
  • Eliot, Montaigne, and the essay : the matter of personality
  • Turning the essay : "tradition and the individual talent"
  • The perfect critic and imperfect critics : the essay, criticism, and impurity
  • Eliot's prose voice : the critical essayist as medium
  • "Restoring/With a new verse the ancient rhyme"
  • Four quartets : the poem as essay
  • The impure art of Four quartets : where literature and philosophy meet
  • Conclusion : faring forward, exploring still : participation instead of Puritan's progress.