Recently added articles from Yeats Eliot Review:
Erratum.(Correction notice)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Erratum: In YER 24.2, Kinnereth Meyer's name was misspelled Myer on the title page (p ....
More than "Prufrock," less than "Gerontion": the moment of knowledge in Inventions of the March Hare.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The important theme of T.S. Eliot 's early poems is "observation," especially what the narrators fix their gaze upon, as we can guess from the title of his first collection of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations. (1) They observe and fragmentally sketch sterile daily scenes and people ...
"Not known, because not looked for": Eliot's debt to browning.(T. S. Eliot, Robert Browning)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... In his criticism and in his poetry, T.S. Eliot openly acknowledges many of his literary influences. He dedicates The Waste Land to Ezra Pound, the friend and editor whom he terms 'il miglior fabbro." He maintains that Dante and Shakespeare "divide the world between them," praises the ...
Cultural continuity in a time of war: Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts and T.S. Eliot's East Coker.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... In "East Coker', T. S. Eliot describes the ongoing struggle "to recover what has been lost I And found and lost again", an action now taking place "under conditions I That seem unpropitious." (1) Such words could certainly describe the historical moment of the poem's publication: the ...
Eliot's echo rhetoric.(T. S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2007; ... In Eliot and the Art of Collaboration, Richard Badenhausen characterizes Eliot's relationship to other poets in a number of ways--as "conversation alliance," using Eliot's own words; as reliance on a "stabilizing field"," and, overarchingly, as collaboration, meaning a form of ...
Eliot shadows: autography and style in the hollow men.(T. S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2007; ... Locked up in an archive at Princeton University and sealed by order until 1 January 2020, the letters of Thomas Stearns Eliot to Emily Hale, upwards of a thousand, currently sit gathering dust. Hale was an intimate of Eliot's, who Ronald Bush ambiguously describes as "'more than a ...
Cultural continuity in a time of war: Virginia Woolf's Between The Acts and T.S. Eliot's East Coker.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... In "East Coker', T. S. Eliot describes the ongoing struggle "to recover what has been lost / And found and lost again" an action no w taking place "under conditions / That seem unpropitious." (1) Such words could certainly describe the historical moment of the poem's publication: the ...
Yeats and the Celtic Twilight: between the worlds.(William Butler Yeats)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Like Voltaire's proclamation that if God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him, so too is the case with history: if the past is not recorded, it becomes necessary for a culture to partake in a narrative that invents (or re-invents) it. In this way, history becomes am imagined ...
Between Augustine and Derrida: reading T.S. Eliot's poetry of exile.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Hugh Kenner's observation that "commentators tour the Eliot territory in chartered buses" (x-xi) rings true even today, particularly in reference to Four Quartets. Post-deconstructionist criticism may have taken us beyond Dame Helen Gardner's orotund assessment of the poem as "beautiful, ...
The Aristotelian Mr. Eliot: structure and strategy in The Waste Land.(T. S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2007; ... Agnostic though he was at the time, T.S. Eliot undoubtedly was searching for some degree of spiritual direction in his Waste Land Cycle of poems. His thoughts might well have been incarnated in Gerontion's words: <Pre>I have not made this show purposelesslyAnd it is not ...
Paris during Eliot's residence in 1910-1911: a practical guide to the city.(Paris, France; T. S. Eliot)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... WHEN T. S. ELIOT HAD WHAT HE CALLED "THE EXCEPTIONAL GOOD FORTUNE" ("WHAT FRANCE" 44) TO SPEND THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1910-1911 IN PAPAS, TAKING COURSES FROM THE FAMED PHILOSOPHER HENRI BERGSON AT LE COLLEGE DE FRANCE AND SEARCHING FOR ms POETIC VOICE, HE ENCOUNTERED A CITY OF ENORMOUS ...
Listening for the "sound of Water over a rock": heroism and the role of the reader in The Waste Land.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... Eliot breaks all the rules of epic poetry in The Waste Land. For an epic poem it appears to be too short; it does not have a unifying voice; and it lacks the primary characteristic that defines this genre--a hero. (1) Eliot, nevertheless, employs an epic structure that necessitates the ...
Thomas MacGreevy reads T.S. Eliot and Jack B. Yeats: making modernism Catholic.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... In the nineteen-thirties, Irish poet and critic Thomas MacGreevy elaborated a project of interpreting and promoting artistic and literary modernism as complementary to a Catholic worldview. He published a handful of slim volumes, including one collection of poems and two particularly ...
Return to the ordinary world: from The Family Reunion to The Cocktail Party.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2006; ... A memorial plaque to Eliot mounted in 1998 on the sidewalk at the site of his birthplace, 2635 Locust Street in St. Louis, notes his titles: "Poet, Philosopher, Literary Critic, Dramatist, Nobel Laureate." In fact, Eliot did not get down to writing poetic drama until as late as his last ...
The full or the dark: an analysis of phases 1 & 15 in Yeats's system.(William Butler Yeats)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2006; ... The two forces that constitute the "Principal Symbol"--the "Great Wheel" --namely, the primary and antithetical tinctures which, in their mutual opposition, create material existence, are known. However, our published knowledge tends to reiterate rather than explore the tinctures. This ...
Crazed by the moon: the duality of the heron in Yeats's Calvary.(William Butler Yeats)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... "Moccasins set in hoar frost, eyes fixed on the bird, Thought: 'On that sky it is black.' Thought: 'In my mind it is white.' Thinking: 'Arden occidentalis, heron, the great one." --Robert Penn Warren "Audubon" In 1895, a short story by W. B. Yeats ...
Examining Yeats's colon: the magical and philosophical progression of ideas in "Among School Children".(William Butler Yeats)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Yeats's "Among School Children" is perhaps the most anthologized of his poems, undoubtedly because it is narrative in nature, captures a cross-section of both his exoteric and esoteric ideas, and contains a number of intertextual references to his other poems that are obvious even to ...
Reality and its double in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2005; ... In a letter dated August 19,1949, T. S. Eliot described his latest play to fellow author and sometime playwright, Djuna Barnes: "THE COCKTAIL PARTY is the name of it, but that's only what I call it in order to entice the public--the esoteric name is UPADHAMMAM SAMUPPADA, but nobody would ...
The influence of Hinduism in William Butler Yeats's "Meru".(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2005; ... William Butler Yeats considered himself to be "very religious," (1) and in his search for Truth one direction he turned was to the East, to an old, established religion: Hinduism. His first encounter with the philosophy was in 1885 or 1886, when he heard Bengali Brahmin Mohini Chatterjee ...
Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Shakespeare's Prince Hal: an unnoticed parallel.(T.S. Eliot, William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)(Character overview)
Dec 22, 2005; ... Prufrock's consciousness is peopled by heroic exemplars who when alluded to only deepen our sense of his timidity and paralyzing weakness of will. When weighed in the scales against Dante, Michelangelo, John the Baptist, the speaker of Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," Lazarus, and Hamlet, ...