To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings - Softcover

Eliot, T. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803267215 ISBN 13: 9780803267213

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1992

Synopsis

These influential essay and lectures by T. S. Eliot span nearly a half century--from 1917, when he published The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, to 1961, four years before his death. With the luminosity and clarity of a first-rate intellect, Eliot considers the uses of literary criticism, the writers who had the greatest influence on his own work, and the importance of being truly educated. Every thoughtful person who yearns to do more than simply get through the day will be reinforced by The Aims of Education.

Other pieces include To Criticize the Critic, From Poe to Valéry, American Literature and the American Language, What Dante Means to Me, The Literature of Politics, The Classics and the Man of Letters, Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry, and Reflections on Vers Libre.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

These influential essays and lectures by T.S. Eliot span nearly a half century--from 1917, when he published 'The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock, ' to 1961, four years before his death. With the luminosity and clarity of a first-rate intellect.

About the Author:

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0803267215
• ISBN 13: 9780803267213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 189