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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn his 1974 essay, "Walking in the City," Michel de Certeau theorizes a vision of urban landscape that depends on descending from "above"--a perspective from which the view is rigid, panoptic, totalizing, and...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines the formal role played by satire in the early drafts of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. I argue that the precise character of this role comes into relief only when satire is located among the strategies...
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From: The GuardianThe task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple—to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. To do it, moreover, in a way which not only breaks with, but is also a logical extension of, the past....
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From:Notes on Contemporary Literature (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedShelley's poetry had an intoxicating effect on Eliot during his adolescence and teenage years and profoundly influenced many of his early poems (see Christopher Ricks' extensive notes to Eliot's Inventions of the March...
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From: T. S. Eliot and Our Turning World[(essay date 2001) In this essay, Thompson uses Anthony Julius's T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form as a point of departure for a reexamination of Eliot's attitude toward Jews.] For all the controversy that...
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From: T. S. Eliot and the Politics of Voice: The Argument of 'The Waste Land'The Waste Land is a poem that does not merely reflect the breakdown of an historical, social, and cultural order battered by the onslaught of violent forces operating under the name of modernity. For Eliot the disaster...
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From: T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Evolution: Sub/Versions of Classicism, Culture, and Progress[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Cuddy argues that illuminating the past and the present simultaneously in a poem is one of Eliot’s greatest innovations in the poetic tradition—“evolution, the classical...
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From:Yeats Eliot Review (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAgnostic though he was at the time, T.S. Eliot undoubtedly was searching for some degree of spiritual direction in his Waste Land Cycle of poems. His thoughts might well have been incarnated in Gerontion's words: The...
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From:Studies in the Humanities (Vol. 41, Issue 1-2) Peer-Reviewed"In 1925, when [Nancy Cunard] was twenty-nine, her friends Virginia and Leonard Woolf themselves set the type at Hogarth Press for a long poem of hers because they so admired and relished it. It was called "Parallax,"...
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From:Yeats Eliot Review (Vol. 23, Issue 3-4) Peer-Reviewed
Listening for the "sound of Water over a rock": heroism and the role of the reader in The Waste Land
Eliot breaks all the rules of epic poetry in The Waste Land. For an epic poem it appears to be too short; it does not have a unifying voice; and it lacks the primary characteristic that defines this genre--a hero. (1)... -
From: T. S. Eliot: A Selected Critique[(essay date spring 1945) In the following essay, originally published in the Partisan Review in spring 1945, Schwartz stresses the international nature of Eliot's poetry and the modernity of his treatment of the themes...
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From:Yeats Eliot Review (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe metaphor of the game of chess, which T.S.Eliot crystallised in the final version of The Wasteland, functions as a structural node that coordinates the dynamics of meaning within the poem. By substituting the...
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From: T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Evolution: Sub/Versions of Classicism, Culture, and Progress[(essay date 2000) In the essay below, Cuddy approaches Eliot's dramas from the point of view of his handling of the classical father-son archetype as well as through his troubled relationship with his own father,...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1917, while suffering from writer's block following the publication of Prufrock and Other Observations, T.S. Eliot composed six poems in French as a creative experiment. Although four of the poems were subsequently...
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From: CLA Journal[(essay date December 1984) In the following essay, Walsh delineates the relationship between Invisible Man and The Waste Land .] In Shadow and Act, Ralph Ellison credits an early reading of The Waste Land as the...
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From: Critical Essays on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land[(essay date December 1922) In the following essay, originally published in the Dial magazine in December 1922, Wilson praises the breadth of literary knowledge demonstrated by Eliot in The Waste Land and applauds his...
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From: AmericaA bombshell burst upon the world of modern poetry 75 years ago this November in the pages of the New York literary journal The Dial--T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." The author had published this outpouring in England a...
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From: Interactions[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Birlik contends that, in “Prufrock” (1915), “the opening lines establish a Lacanian universe for Prufrock’s split self which presents itself as the disintegration of the...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot juxtaposes fragments from the past--from classical antiquity to Dante, Shakespeare, Marvell, Webster, and other authors, so as to enhance the insanity of the modern world and the emptiness...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5871)When T. S. Eliot died, on January 4, 1965, it was already more than six years since the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library had bought the drafts of The Waste Land as well as most of the surviving draft...