Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet

A carefully revised and corrected second edition of a classic book on our century's best-known poet. 'An important and original study, which admirably generates fresh thought about Eliot.' Journal of American Studies

A. David Moody (Author)

9780521467506, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 January 1995

408 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.59 kg

'The most enlightening, most profound and, in some ways, most disturbing book about T. S. Eliot that I have yet read.' Norman Nicholson, Church Times

A. David Moody's Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet was published to acclaim in 1979, with a successful paperback following in 1980. This carefully revised and corrected second edition, with a specially written preface and a new appendix, meets the demand for one of the classic studies of the twentieth century's best-known poet.

Preface to second edition
Introduction
1. The growth of the poet's mind
Part I. 1905 –1912 - An Individual Talent: 2. Prufrock observed
Part II. 1912–1922 -'Shall I at Least Set My Lands in Order?': 3. 'Gerontion', and the historical sense
4. Tiresias transformed
Part III. 1922–1930 - 'Ordina Quest' Amore, O Tu Che M'ami': 5. The poet saved from himself
6. Love through the looking-glass
Part IV. 1931–1939 -The Word In the Desert: 7. The design of the drama
8. Dust in sunlight
Part V. 1939–1945 - Apocalypse: 9. Patriot of fire
10. The poet observed
Appendices
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]