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- The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: A European Society, 1947–1953
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The postwar years of this volume represent one of the richest and most rewarding periods of Eliot's career. Following receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, he was in constant demand to lecture, broadcast, contribute to periodicals, and receive honorary degrees and recognition from numerous European, American, and British universities and societies. These activities produced a great variety of unpublished, uncollected, and unrecorded addresses, speeches, and tributes, together with ten major literary essays that have become part of Eliot's permanent canon, from "Milton II" to "The Three Voices of Poetry." A film version of Murder in the Cathedral and the publication and production of two new plays, The Cocktail Party and The Confidential Clerk, generated new essays on the relation of poetry, drama, and the theater, leading to the canonical "Poetry and Drama." Of central concern in the volume is the relation of religion, education, and culture, and the responsibility of the man of letters for reconstructing that relation after the devastations of war, a concern developed in Notes towards the Definition of Culture and expanded in the previously unpublished "Die Idee einer europäischen Gesellschaft" [The Idea of a European Society].
The postwar years of this volume represent one of the richest and most rewarding periods of Eliot's career. Following receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, he was in constant demand to lecture, broadcast, contribute to periodicals, and receive honorary degrees and recognition from numerous European, American, and British universities and societies. These activities produced a great variety of unpublished, uncollected, and unrecorded addresses, speeches, and tributes, together with ten major literary essays that have become part of Eliot's permanent canon, from "Milton II" to "The Three Voices of Poetry." A film version of Murder in the Cathedral and the publication and production of two new plays, The Cocktail Party and The Confidential Clerk, generated new essays on the relation of poetry, drama, and the theater, leading to the canonical "Poetry and Drama." Of central concern in the volume is the relation of religion, education, and culture, and the responsibility of the man of letters for reconstructing that relation after the devastations of war, a concern developed in Notes towards the Definition of Culture and expanded in the previously unpublished "Die Idee einer europäischen Gesellschaft" [The Idea of a European Society].
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- A European Society, 1947-1953: Introduction
- pp. xi-xlvi
- Editorial Procedures and Principles
- pp. xlvii-lvi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. lvii-lx
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. lxi-lxiv
- List of Illustrations
- pp. lxv-lxviii
- PART I: Essays, Reviews, Addresses, and Public Letters
- 1947
- Professor Karl Mannheim
- pp. 5-6
- To the Editor of Scrutiny
- pp. 68-69
- La poesia nel teatro
- pp. 70-98
- 1948
- Presidential address to Books Across the Sea
- pp. 119-123
- Edgar Poe et la France
- pp. 130-164
- Hommage à Charles Maurras
- pp. 165-170
- Notes towards the Definition of Culture
- pp. 194-287
- Tribute to Hugh MacDiarmid
- pp. 288-289
- From Poe to Valéry
- pp. 290-308
- Account in German of “Ariel Poems"
- pp. 310-311
- 1949
- Speech at dinner of the Alliance française
- pp. 313-317
- Lambeth and Education: The Report Criticized
- pp. 340-352
- Remarks in German to German audiences
- pp. 372-375
- The Aims of Poetic Drama
- pp. 376-388
- Die Idee einer europäischen Gesellschaft
- pp. 389-414
- Shakespeares Verskunst
- pp. 415-445
- Address to the Publishers’ Association
- pp. 456-460
- 1950
- Response to the Toast at the Nobel Banquet
- pp. 466-468
- Talk on Dante [What Dante Means to Me]
- pp. 482-492
- The Aims of Education
- pp. 511-569
- Notes . . . from T. S. Eliot
- pp. 570-573
- Message to Merkur
- pp. 578-579
- 1951
- Poetry and Film: Mr. T. S. Eliot’s Views
- pp. 580-582
- Poetry and Drama
- pp. 589-610
- The Spoken Word
- pp. 611-616
- Virgil and the Christian World
- pp. 627-640
- 1952
- Good Going. To the Editor of The Times
- pp. 671-672
- Le Dilemme poétique [Charybde et Scylla]
- pp. 677-710
- Notes for speech at the University of Rennes
- pp. 724-728
- Découverte de Paris
- pp. 729-730
- Tribute to Max Beerbohm
- pp. 749-750
- Some Thoughts on Braille
- pp. 751-755
- An Address to Members of the London Library
- pp. 756-762
- The Publishing of Poetry
- pp. 766-772
- 1953
- Message on Charles Maurras
- pp. 773-774
- Foreword to Shakespeare, by Henri Fluchère
- pp. 782-785
- The Three Voices of Poetry
- pp. 817-834
- PART II: Signed Letters and Documents with Multiple Authorship
- The Kenneth Patchen Fund (Mar 1951)
- pp. 868-869
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