T. S. Eliot, Paperback / softback Book

T. S. Eliot Paperback / softback

Part of the Lives and Legacies series

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The twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S.

Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult writer-forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic.

In this compelling exploration, prize-winning poet Craig Raine finds a way to read and make sense of Eliot's full corpus.

He illuminates a paradoxical Eliot--an exacting anti-romantic realist, skeptical of the emotions, yet incessantly troubled by the fear of emotional failure--through close readings of his poetry, with extended analyses of Eliot's two master works--The Waste Land and Four Quartets.

Raine also examines Eliot's criticism--including his coinage of such key literary terms as the objective correlative, dissociation of sensibility, the auditory imagination, and his biography, crafting a book that provides a concise introduction for beginners and a provocative set of arguments for Eliot admirers.

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