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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464630803321

Autore

Stead C. K (Christian Karlson), <1932->

Titolo

The new poetic : Yeats to Eliot / / C.K. Stead, Profressor of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Continuum, , 2005

©1998

ISBN

1-4411-1291-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Continuum Impacts

Disciplina

821.91209

Soggetti

English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1964 by Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

FC; Half title; Also available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Conventions; Introduction; 1  Art and Reason; Plato or Socrates; Apollo and Dionysus; Art and life; Plato and the poets; Wine and song; Divine madness; 2  Being; Metaphysics; Essence and existence; Forms; God; God is dead; Nihilism; Eternal return; 3  Becoming; Heraclitus; Will to power; Historical background; Reality and truth; Nietzsche and science; Plato on becoming; 4  Noble and Good; Kalokagathia; Objectivism and relativism; Eudaimonia; Soul over body; Decadence; Masters and slaves

Revaluation of valuesOrder and necessity; 5  Sophia and Philosophia ; Plato as a creative writer; Plato and philosophy; Nietzsche and Plato; Nietzsche and philosophy; Wisdom and the love of wisdom; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

<div><span>''Reading T. S. Eliot and reading about T. S. Eliot were equally formative experiences for my generation. One of the books about him which greatly appealed to me when I first read it ... was The New Poetic by the New Zealand poet and critic, C. K. Stead...''</span> <div> </div><span>Seamus Heaney, The Government of the Tongue (1986)</span></div>