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Klappentext One recurring theme in the study is the poetic treatment of the relationship (often conflict) between experience in life and experience in art; another is the relation between Eliot's beliefs and his poetry! and between poetry and belief in general. Eliot in his finest poems is seen above all as a poet of what he called 'the first voice'! 'oppressed by the burden which he must bring to birth'. The book concludes with a detailed and helpful study of Four Quartets: here as elsewhere Martin Scofield is concerned to look first of all at the texture of the verse and the qualities of the poetic 'surface'! while clarifying obscurities and explaining allusions where appropriate. Both students and general readers will find his book informative and his commitment to the poetry infectious. Zusammenfassung This book provides an introduction to T.S.Eliots poetry. The poems! as well as some of the poetic drama and sections of the prose criticism! are discussed and placed in relation to the development of Eliot's oeuvre! to his life and to a wider context of philosophical and religious enquiry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Aspects of the life of the poet; 2. Early poetic influences and criticism, and poems written in early youth; 3. Prufrock and other observations (1917); 4. Poetic thoery and poetic practice; 5. Poems (1920); 6. The waste land (1922); 7. From The hollow men (1925) to 'Marina' (1930); 8. Poetry, pattern and belief; 9. From Coriolan (1931) to 'Burnt Norton' (1936); 10. 'Burnt Norton' (1936) and the pattern for Four Quartets; 11. The wartime Quartets (1940-2); Notes; Swelect bibliography; Index.
