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A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces a new generation of readers and educators to Eliot and covers the full breadth of his literary career. Chapters explore the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyze his body of work, and assess his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical.

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Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his life and achievement. It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and careerIt explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophicalIt charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot since the early 1990sIt provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century

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Critical attention to T. S. Eliot's works and career has surged since the early 1990s. Innovative scholarship on philosophy, gender, sexuality, and popular culture in his work, as well as renewed controversy over his politics and prejudices, attests to fresh interest in this modernist icon. At the same time, after one of the most successful runs in history, the curtain finally came down on the London and New York production of Cats (for which Eliot was posthumously awarded a Tony); Inventions of the March Hare , a fascinating collection of early poems that had been lost for decades, was finally published; and Time magazine named Eliot "Poet of the Century". A Companion to T. S. Eliot introduces a new generation of readers and educators to Eliot and covers the full breadth of his literary career. The text explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzes his body of work, and assesses his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and intellectual. The result is an analytical portrait of T. S. Eliot observed through contemporary eyes by leading Eliot scholars - providing illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century.

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Critical attention to T. S. Eliot's works and career has surged since the early 1990s. Innovative scholarship on philosophy, gender, sexuality, and popular culture in his work, as well as renewed controversy over his politics and prejudices, attests to fresh interest in this modernist icon. At the same time, after one of the most successful runs in history, the curtain finally came down on the London and New York production of Cats (for which Eliot was posthumously awarded a Tony); Inventions of the March Hare , a fascinating collection of early poems that had been lost for decades, was finally published; and Time magazine named Eliot "Poet of the Century". A Companion to T. S. Eliot introduces a new generation of readers and educators to Eliot and covers the full breadth of his literary career. The text explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzes his body of work, and assesses his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and intellectual. The result is an analytical portrait of T. S. Eliot observed through contemporary eyes by leading Eliot scholars - providing illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century.

Author Biography

David E. Chinitz, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, is the author of T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003) and Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes (2013). He is currently first vice president of the Modernist Studies Association and past president of the T. S. Eliot Society.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii Preface xiv Acknowledgments xvi Abbreviations Used for Works by T. S. Eliot xvii Part I: Influences 1 1 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life 3Anthony Cuda 2 Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations 15Sanford Schwartz 3 T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist City 27Barry J. Faulk 4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism 40Christina Hauck 5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy 53Jewel Spears Brooker 6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture 66David E. Chinitz 7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology 79Marc Manganaro 8 "Where are the eagles and the trumpets?": Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development 91Vincent Sherry Part II: Works 105 9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare 107Jayme Stayer 10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour 120Frances Dickey 11 Disambivalent Quatrains 133Jeffrey M. Perl 12 "Gerontion": The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot 145Edward Brunner 13 "Fishing, with the arid plain behind me": Difficulty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land 157Michael Coyle 14 The Enigma of "The Hollow Men" 168Elisabeth Däumer 15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl 179Christine Buttram 16 "Having to construct": Dissembly Lines in the "Ariel" Poems and Ash-Wednesday 191Tony Sharpe 17 "The inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses 204Gareth Reeves 18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets 216Lee Oser 19 "Away we go": Poetry and Play in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats 228Sarah Bay-Cheng 20 Eliot's 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion 239Randy Malamud 21 Eliot's "Divine" Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman 251Carol H. Smith 22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927 263Leonard Diepeveen 23 He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 275Richard Badenhausen 24 In Times of Emergency: Eliot's Social Criticism 287John Xiros Cooper Part III: Contexts 299 25 Eliot's Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics 301Lawrence Rainey 26 T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism 311Ann Ardis 27 Conflict and Concealment: Eliot's Approach to Women and Gender 323Cyrena Pondrom 28 Eliot and "Race": Jews, Irish, and Blacks 335Bryan Cheyette 29 "The pleasures of higher vices": Sexuality in Eliot's Work 350Patrick Query 30 "An occupation for the saint": Eliot as a Religious Thinker 363Kevin J. H. Dettmar 31 Eliot's Politics 376Michael Levenson 32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of the Criterion 388Jason Harding 33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher 399John Timberman Newcomb 34 Eliot and the New Critics 411Gail McDonald 35 "T. S. Eliot rates socko!": Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity 423Aaron Jaffe 36 Eliot's Critical Reception: "The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry" 436Nancy K. Gish 37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Influence: The Waste Land 449James Longenbach Bibliography of Works by T. S. Eliot 460 Index 463

Review

?A Companion to T. S. Eliot is a necessity for any college or university library and a worthwhile investment for your personal library. You will use it and reuse it, and you'll encourage your students to do the same.??The Newsletter of the T. S. Eliot Society ?The articles are fully informative, readable and stimulating. Students, teachers and all readers interested in literature and poetry will enjoy ? and benefit from ? this companion.??Reference Reviews?As a resource for both scholars and students [this] book is very strong, and stand-out contributions come from John Xiros Cooper, on Eliot's social critiques, and John Timberman Newcomb?s reconsideration of Eliot's influence as an editor, in which he notes the sometimes overlooked role Eliot played not only in British modernism but also, with Pound, in shaping the public face of the likes of George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky, and Marianne Moore. The collection as a whole, finely edited by Chinitz, will be a necessary reference.??The Year?s Work in English Studies

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Critical attention to T. S. Eliot s works and career has surged since the early 1990s. Innovative scholarship on philosophy, gender, sexuality, and popular culture in his work, as well as renewed controversy over his politics and prejudices, attests to fresh interest in this modernist icon. At the same time, after one of the most successful runs in history, the curtain finally came down on the London and New York production of Cats (for which Eliot was posthumously awarded a Tony); Inventions of the March Hare , a fascinating collection of early poems that had been lost for decades, was finally published; and Time magazine named Eliot Poet of the Century . A Companion to T. S. Eliot introduces a new generation of readers and educators to Eliot and covers the full breadth of his literary career. The text explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzes his body of work, and assesses his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and intellectual. The result is an analytical portrait of T. S. Eliot observed through contemporary eyes by leading Eliot scholars providing illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century.

Review Text

?A Companion to T. S. Eliot is a necessity for any college or university library and a worthwhile investment for your personal library. You will use it and reuse it, and you'll encourage your students to do the same.??The Newsletter of the T. S. Eliot Society ?The articles are fully informative, readable and stimulating. Students, teachers and all readers interested in literature and poetry will enjoy ? and benefit from ? this companion.??Reference Reviews ?As a resource for both scholars and students [this] book is very strong, and stand-out contributions come from John Xiros Cooper, on Eliot's social critiques, and John Timberman Newcomb?s reconsideration of Eliot's influence as an editor, in which he notes the sometimes overlooked role Eliot played not only in British modernism but also, with Pound, in shaping the public face of the likes of George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky, and Marianne Moore. The collection as a whole, finely edited by Chinitz, will be a necessary reference.??The Year?s Work in English Studies

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Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of Eliot's work and career available Considers Eliot's works in a variety of contexts Explores the controversies surrounding Eliot's works and his legacy

Details ISBN1118647092 Series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture ISBN-10 1118647092 ISBN-13 9781118647097 Format Paperback Edited by David E. Chinitz DEWEY 821.912 Year 2014 Media Book Short Title COMPANION TO T S ELIOT Language English Publication Date 2014-02-07 Edition 1st UK Release Date 2014-02-07 AU Release Date 2014-02-03 NZ Release Date 2014-02-03 Author David E. Chinitz Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9781405162371 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2014-02-07 Pages 512 Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this

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