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T. S. Eliot: A Guide for the Perplexed

Av Steve Ellis

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T. S. Eliot is one of the most celebrated twentieth-century poets and one whose work is practically synonymous with perplexity. Eliot is perceived as extremely challenging due to the multi-lingual references and fragmentation we find in his poetry and his recurring literary allusions to writers including Dante, Shakespeare, Marvell, Baudelaire and Conrad. There is an additional difficulty for today's readers that Eliot probably didn't envisage: the widespread unfamiliarity with the Christian belief and culture that his work becomes increasingly steeped in. Steve Ellis introduces Eliot's work by using his extensive prose writings to illuminate the poetry. As a major critic, as well as poet, Eliot was highly conscious of the challenges his poetry set, of its relation and difference to the work of previous poets, and of the ways in which the activity of reading was problematised by his work, so by taking his prose as a starting point helps to clarify his poetic writing. The guide also offers an overview of key critical debates concerning Eliot's work.
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Steve Ellis is Professor of English at the University of Birmingham, UK and is also a poet and translator. His publications include The English Eliot (Routledge, 1991), Chaucer: An Oxford Guide (OUP, 2005) and Virginia Woolf and the Victorians (CUP 2007).

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"I can think of few critics better qualified than Steve Ellis to interpret T. S. Eliot to a new generation of readers. This incisive new account of all Eliot's major writings, in both verse and prose, not only provides a comprehensive survey of the best previous criticism; it also offers Ellis's own distinctive insights into Eliot's ouevre, drawing on an unrivalled acquaintance with Europe's literary and religious traditions to situate him within the contexts, of thought, values, ideas and form, which underpin and articulate the writings of this elusive, indispensable and endlessly rewarding poet." - Stan Smith, Research Professor in Literary Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK

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