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Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns)
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Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) (1888–1965), poet and dramatist, American by birth but English by adoption, who initiated a revival of
poetic drama in England with a play on the murder of Thomas à Becket,
Murder in the Cathedral (1935). First acted in the Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral, it was subsequently revived several times with great success in commercial theatres in Britain and the United States. A later play,
The Family Reunion (1939), based on the
Oresteia of
Aeschylus, was considered less successful, mainly because Eliot failed to integrate the ritualism of the
chorus with the realism of the setting, but it has had occasional revivals. Of his last three plays, commissioned for performance at the
Edinburgh Festival,
The Cocktail Party (1949) and
The Confidential Clerk (1953) were based on
Euripides' Alcestis and
Ion respectively;
The Elder Statesman (1958) on
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. In them Eliot moved closer to a mannered realism, disguising his serious purpose under the form of modern drawing-room comedy, and discarding the closely wrought poetic style of the earlier plays for a plain undecorated verse. All his plays were directed by E. Martin
Browne.
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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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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 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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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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 "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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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, 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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 "The Economist (US)")
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Eliot's New Life.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 10/1/1988; 700+ words
; ELIOT'S NEW LIFE. By Lyndall...Pound who nicknamed T.S. Eliot "Possum", to indicate...t know, or doesn't want strongly enough...employee of Lloyd's Bank, largely to provide...favour of the Jacobeans. Eliot could assure his mother...
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Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...but a governing motto for his understanding of T. S. Eliot's work. The motto is enabling, but it may be...into the Shadow." Even after reading Schuchard's book I don't know what Eliot's dark angel was or how it was transcended in "Ash...
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T.S. Eliot and Prejudice.
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/29/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...Britannica would wake the imagination of T S. Eliot. This first vol- ume of his correspondence...Maxwell Bodenheim, the The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume I, 1893-1922, edited...Brace, 639 pp., $29.95) T S. Eliot and Prejudice, by Christopher Ricks...
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Eliot, T. S.
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
T. S. Eliot Born: September 26, 1888 St. 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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