Synopses & Reviews
Thirty-one essays-categorized as essays in generalization,” appreciations of individual authors,” and social and religious criticism”- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliots original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode; Index. Published jointly with Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Synopsis
The Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot, edited by Professor Frank Kermode, gathers work from Eliot's unrivalled career as a literary and social critic. These thirty-one essays--categorized as "essays in generalization," "appreciations of individual authors," and "social and religious criticism" --were written over the course of a half century, and include his most famous essays to lesser known works from before 1918. This volume reveals Eliot's original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language.
Synopsis
Thirty-one essays-categorized as “ essays in generalization, ” “ appreciations of individual authors, ” and “ social and religious criticism” - written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliot’ s original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode; Index. Published jointly with Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
About the Author
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.