Description
This seminal book is T. S. Eliot’s first collection of literary criticism, published in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, including “Tradition and the Individual Talent” and “Hamlet and His Problems”, as well as Eliot’s thoughts on Marlowe, Jonson and Massinger and his first tribute to Dante. Many of Eliot’s best-known critical statements appear in these pages. Looking back on his career as a critic in 1961, Eliot wrote that his earlier criticism implicitly defended the kind of poetry he and his friends wrote, giving the essays the urgency and warmth of an advocate’s appeal. That urgency remains apparent long after the essays first appeared.
Information
Author: Eliot T. S.
Language: English
Publication date: April 21, 1997
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (TBS/GBS)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Classic literature in english, Fiction in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 145
ISBN/EAN: 9780571190898