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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811273703321

Autore

Childs Donald J.

Titolo

From philosophy to poetry : T.S. Eliot's study of knowledge and experience / / Donald J. Childs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Athlone Press, , 2001

ISBN

0-567-30882-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

821/.912

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of, in literature

Experience in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Received Wisdom: The Critical Reception of Eliot''s Early Work in Philosophy; 1 Eliot''s Rhapsody of Bergsonian Knowledge and Experience; 2 Ungrammatical Knowledge and Experience in ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''; 3 The Occultation of Knowledge and Experience in The Waste Land; 4 The Metamorphoses of Knowledge and Experience from ''The Death of Saint Narcissus'' to Burnt Norton; 5 Etherised upon a Table: Knowledge and Experience and Its Metaphorical Operations; 6 Mystical and Pragmatic Knowledge and Experience in Four Quartets

7 American Knowledge and Experience in Eliot''s Puritan JeremiadNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

In this text, Professor Child examines T.S. Eliot''s relationship between  his writing of poetry and his philosophical pursuits, in particular his  lifelong occupation with the work of F.H. Bradley, Henri Bergson and  William James. This account also considers the reception of Eliot''s  writing in philosophy and argues that the study of this work has  significantly entered recent Eliot criticism. Overall, this volume  provides a new reading of Eliot''s famous poems, his literary criticism  and social commentary.