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Sweeney
Sweeney, symbolic character in the poetry of T.S. Eliot, representing the vulgar but vital force of life, particularly in modern man. He is introduced in Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service (1918) as a contrast to the febrile presbyters. In Sweeney Among the Nightingales (1918) this ape‐like... Read more |
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Murder in the Cathedral
Murder in the Cathedral, verse drama by T.S. Eliot, produced and published in 1935.In A.D. 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket returns to Canterbury from his seven‐year exile in France. A women's chorus represents the helpless attitude of the common people toward the schism between church and... Read more |
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The Waste Land
Waste Land, The, poem on the theme of the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world by T.S. Eliot, published in 1922. This most widely known expression of the despair of the postwar era has as a structural framework the symbolism of certain fertility myths that reputedly formed the pagan origins... Read more |
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Book of life
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life boat
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Eternal life
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Life Support
Life Support Definition Life support refers to a spectrum of techniques used to maintain life after the failure of one or more vital organs. Purpose A patient requires life support when one or more vital organs fail, due to causes such as trauma, infection, cancer, heart attack, or chronic... Read more |
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Quality of life
QUALITY OF LIFE Before the 1970s, quality of life received little attention in the medical or public health literature, but since then the situation has been reversed. Despite its widespread use, the term "quality of life" has different meanings to different people. For some researchers and... Read more |
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George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes , 1817-78, English critic and author. As editor of the Leader (1850-54) and of the Fortnightly Review (1865-66), Lewes distinguished himself as a critic. Influenced by Comte's positivism , he wrote Biographical History of Philosophy (4 vol., 1845-46), Comte's Philosophy of... Read more |
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life-zone
life-zone An original concept of C. H. Merriam (1894) describing the way in which changing vegetation forms give a series of life-zones in relation to temperature gradients. In modern ecology these life-zones are defined by reference to a range of interacting environment gradients, and reflect... Read more |
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TS Eliot voted Nation's Favourite Poet in BBC Poetry Poll for National Poetry...
...documentaries about TS Eliot on National Poetry Day: Arena: TS Eliot on BBC Four at 10.20pm, and My Life In Verse with Robert...Poetry Day: Arena: TS Eliot, BBC Four, 10.20pm My Life In ... |
 "Cape Times (South Africa)")
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New light on TS Eliot, the mystery poet.(News)
...abhorrent and his sex life was a failure. But...glimpse of the real TS Eliot. Andy McSmith reports...understood." Opinions on Eliot the poet are polarised...study it too early in life. For many others...The largest body of ... |
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Heaney wins TS Eliot prize for poetry
...named in honour of TS Eliot and presented by his widow, Valerie Eliot. Heaney, who has been...years. This year's TS Eliot award was a hard-run...the rural traditions, life blood of his work, are...would have had in the ... |
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Heaney wins pound(s)10,000 TS Eliot prize
...Laureate was named winner of the 2006 TS Eliot Prize worth pound(s)10,000...victory was announced by Valerie Eliot, TS Eliot's widow. Paul Keegan, poetry...Bernard O'Donoghue.Heaney, who lives in the Irish Republic, said in ... |
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TS Eliot is voted Britain's favourite poet
...favourites unveiled yesterday. TS Eliot was voted Britain's favourite...poets would have sprung to life." The rest of the list...have been an admirer of Eliot's poetry since I was a...strong place." TOP TEN 1 TS Eliot 2 John ... |
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Eight decades on and I think I spy TS Eliot's 'Waste Land'
...the cruellest month." TS Eliot began The Waste Land with...kind of numbed surprise as Eliot's anonymous watcher on...different kind of death-in-life. And we all, I guess...spiritual drought, but for Eliot's unflattering comparison... |
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TS Eliot's life with wife explored at Kenilworth theatre.
...Talisman Theatre from Monday, examines TS Eliot's doomed relationship with his first...importantly, because, as an American, Eliot was a literary outsider in England...social ambition and steely resolve of Eliot, as well as highlighting the cruelty... |
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Irish poets on the TS Eliot shortlist
...shortlist for this year's TS Eliot prize: Alan Gillis for...workshops with children. The TS Eliot prize fund is up this year...Edwin Morgan's A Book of Lives (Carcanet); Sean O...based on the poet's life, by Paul ... |
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TS Eliot penniless, tired a year after 'Waste Land' poem
London, Oct. 31 -- TS Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land...revealed that his personal life had turned into a nightmare...have taken 10 years off my life. "I must either give up...before my health crashes." Eliot refused to give up his bank... |
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TS Eliot's village bares its teeth
...a 40-year-old businessman who lives with his family in the village's...than any MP could muster. A poem by TS Eliot. Though he died in 1965, the Nobel...outside St Michael's Church, wherein Eliot's ashes were interred. Astonishingly... |
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