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Eliot, Thomas Stearns
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Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888–1965). Poet and critic. His religious background was Unitarian, which gave way to a despairing agnosticism which finds expression in his early poems and, especially,
The Waste Land (1922). Many religious traditions appealed to him, including Hindu philosophy,
Neo-Thomism, and the classical Anglicanism of
Andrewes and the
Metaphysical poets (though an
anti-Semitic note is also evident), and in 1927 he was baptized and declared himself ‘an
Anglo-Catholic in religion’. His later poems (especially
Four Quartets, 1935–42) and his plays explore human doubt and scepticism within an intellectual framework, with deep traditional roots in the mystics,
Dante, and the Greek tragedians: what is believed is more readily lived than expressed in words.
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Eliot the Enigma: An Observation of the Development of T. S. Eliot's Thought and Poetry
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; The significance of T. S. Eliot's conversion to Christianity in its Anglican form in 1927...gave him a principle of order 'outside the self.'"2 Eliot's conversion, however, did not imply that his own critical...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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George Eliot - a writer of wrongs; THE NUNEATON-BORN NOVELIST WHO MADE IT TO THE TOP IN A MALE-DOMINATED VICTORIAN SOCIETY LIVED A WAYWARD LIFE.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 11/21/2002; 700+ words
; ...a fragile commodity and Eliot examines the ways and means...TV producer Louis Marks. ELIOT'S intelligence in her novels is so strong that you can't help but feel that you...who plays Daniel Deronda. ELIOT was quite a social activist...
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Eliot shadows: autography and style in the hollow men.(T. S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yeats Eliot Review; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...than any currently available Eliot document. Likely against Eliot's wishes, Hale donated them to...1973 biography, for example, T. S. Matthews imagines Hale's response to Eliot's first marriage in terms befitting...
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Eliot's echo rhetoric.(T. S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yeats Eliot Review; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...recognition, to invite Eliot into the conversation...discussing the defects of T.S. Eliot's poetry. What do you...unclear. In 1925, Pound's letter to a friend notes that "Eliot don't see either Yeats or Hardy...
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T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; JULIUS, Anthony. T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary...affect how we teach and write about T. S. Eliot. Some will dismiss Julius's arguments...excessive. I do not think that T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary...
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Eliot, Frazer, and the myhtology of modernism. (influence of anthropologist James Frazer on poet T.S. Eliot)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Back in the '50s, T. S. Eliot took the wind out of Eliot studies...critical tendency has been to see Eliot's invocation of James Frazer and Jessie...Eliot studies. Her findings about Eliot's assimilation of Frazer in particular...
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Eliot's sources and "a cumulative plausibility": Austin Dobson, John Ford, Kipling, Norman Cameron. (T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling)(T.S. Eliot at 110)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...who are interested in sources for Eliot's poems have immediately to concede...considerations are sketched in my preface to Eliot's Inventions of the March Hare: Poems...rhyme--plus an invoking--in Eliot's "Convictions," another such in...
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Eliot, Borges, tradition, and irony.(T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Symposium; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...annihilation, this short note suggests one of Borges's recurrent critical concerns, namely the dynamics...literary tradition. In this respect, Borges's ideas seem to coincide with T. S. Eliot's as articulated in his well-known essays...
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George Eliot and the production of consumers
Magazine article from: Novel; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...that [Felix Holt] isn't quite ready for publication...be furnished to M.P.s" (Eliot, Letters 8: 374). The...anthologies shape the way Eliot's work is perceived even...Anthologies redefine the genre of Eliot's oeuvre and the gender of...
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Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...assumed that the last thing T. S. Eliot would have wanted was a criticism...second chapter, Schuchard's detective work uncovers an...consequential connection between Eliot and T. E. Hulme; the third begins...the "personal voice" in Eliot's wor
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Eliot, T. S.
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
T. S. Eliot Born: September 26, 1888St. Louis...playwright, editor, and publisher T. S. Eliot, American-English author, was one...never forgot their New England ties. T. S. Eliot claimed that he was a child of both the...
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...publisher. On Sept. 26, 1888, T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Mo...forgot their New England ties. T. S. Eliot claimed that he was a child of both...Henry Ware Eliot, the father of T. S. Eliot, became chairman of the board of...
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T. S. Eliot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot), 1888-1965, American-British poet and critic, b. St...of the most distinguished literary figures of the 20th cent., T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. He studied at Harvard...
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George Eliot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...who later edited George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters...small rural towns, George Eliot was primarily concerned with...her letters (ed. by G. S. Haight, 7 vol., 1954...collected essays (ed. by T. Pinney, 1964); biographies...
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Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) (1888–1965...considered less successful, mainly because Eliot failed to integrate the ritualism of the...Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus . In them Eliot moved closer to a mannered realism, disguising...
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