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T. S. Eliot entered the last decade of his monumental career with no lack of energy in pursuing his dramatic and critical writing, completing his final play, The Elder Statesman, and publishing a versatile sequence of canonical essays, including "Goethe as the Sage," "The Politics of Literature," "The Frontiers of Criticism," and "To Criticize the Critic." All the while he was fully engaged in a variety of critical genres, including tributes to international writers and artists in celebration of their careers, such as Picasso, Sylvia Beach, and Paul Claudel; he wrote twelve obituaries for close friends in his literary and publishing life, from Harriet Weaver and Geoffrey Faber to Wyndham Lewis and Louis MacNeice. As a public figure in high demand, he maintained a rigorous schedule of lectures and addresses for English, European, and American audiences; he wrote numerous public letters to editors of papers and journals on literary, church, and civic matters, from cuts to the BBC's Third Programme to the language of the New English Bible. Much critical energy was invested in writing introductions and prefaces to editions and books on French symbolism, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Paul Valéry, David Jones, John Davidson, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After reading, criticizing, and meditating on the writing of an English poet over the whole of his career, Eliot made him the subject of his final major essay, "George Herbert": "In his poems we can find ample evidence of his spiritual struggles, of self-examination and self-criticism, and of the cost at which he acquired godliness."
T. S. Eliot entered the last decade of his monumental career with no lack of energy in pursuing his dramatic and critical writing, completing his final play, The Elder Statesman, and publishing a versatile sequence of canonical essays, including "Goethe as the Sage," "The Politics of Literature," "The Frontiers of Criticism," and "To Criticize the Critic." All the while he was fully engaged in a variety of critical genres, including tributes to international writers and artists in celebration of their careers, such as Picasso, Sylvia Beach, and Paul Claudel; he wrote twelve obituaries for close friends in his literary and publishing life, from Harriet Weaver and Geoffrey Faber to Wyndham Lewis and Louis MacNeice. As a public figure in high demand, he maintained a rigorous schedule of lectures and addresses for English, European, and American audiences; he wrote numerous public letters to editors of papers and journals on literary, church, and civic matters, from cuts to the BBC's Third Programme to the language of the New English Bible. Much critical energy was invested in writing introductions and prefaces to editions and books on French symbolism, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Paul Valéry, David Jones, John Davidson, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After reading, criticizing, and meditating on the writing of an English poet over the whole of his career, Eliot made him the subject of his final major essay, "George Herbert": "In his poems we can find ample evidence of his spiritual struggles, of self-examination and self-criticism, and of the cost at which he acquired godliness."
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Editorial Procedures and Principles
- pp. xxv-xxxiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxxv-xxxviii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xxxix-xlii
- List of Illustrations
- pp. xliii-xlvi
- PART I: Essays, Reviews, Addresses, and Public Letters
- 1954
- On Poetry and Drama
- pp. 14-19
- Tribute to Wallace Stevens
- pp. 20-21
- Mrs. Runcie’s Pudding
- pp. 27-28
- 1955
- Das Theater ist unersetzlich
- pp. 38-41
- Memorial Tribute for Paul Claudel
- pp. 42-43
- Gordon Craig’s Socratic Dialogues
- pp. 47-52
- Author and Critic
- pp. 53-61
- Goethe as the Sage
- pp. 62-84
- The Literature of Politics
- pp. 85-95
- Billy Graham versus M.R.A
- pp. 104-111
- 1956
- Fr. Cheetham Retires from Gloucester Road
- pp. 114-116
- Poetry and the Schools
- pp. 117-118
- The Frontiers of Criticism
- pp. 121-138
- Brief über Ernst Robert Curtius
- pp. 147-151
- Tribute to Ezra Pound
- p. 152
- “Pygmalion.” To the Editor of The Times
- pp. 157-158
- 1957
- Das schöpferische Recht des Regisseurs
- pp. 159-160
- An Appeal to our Readers
- pp. 161-162
- The Importance of Wyndham Lewis
- pp. 163-165
- Wyndham Lewis
- pp. 166-171
- Statements on the Nuremberg Trials
- pp. 172-173
- Speech to the BBC Governors
- pp. 180-184
- Johnson as Critic and Poet
- pp. 185-224
- 1958
- Letter on Idris Davies
- p. 281
- 1959
- Memorial Tribute for Bishop G. K. A. Bell
- pp. 314-316
- The Unfading Genius of Rudyard Kipling
- pp. 317-322
- Memorial Tribute for Collin Brooks
- pp. 334-338
- Memorial Tribute for Edwin Muir
- pp. 344-357
- Response on receipt of the Dante Gold Medal
- pp. 358-361
- A Note of Homage to Allen Tate
- pp. 362-363
- Letter on Sean O’Casey
- p. 364
- Greeting to the Staatstheater Kassel
- pp. 367-369
- London Library. To the Editor of The Times
- pp. 370-371
- 1960
- To the Editor of Ukraine and the World
- pp. 380-381
- Foreword to One-Way Song, by Wyndham Lewis
- pp. 382-384
- Memorial Tribute for Adriano Olivetti
- pp. 385-386
- The Influence of Landscape upon the Poet
- pp. 387-390
- Speech at the Royal Academy of Arts dinner
- pp. 391-395
- Memorial Tribute for May Lamberton Becker
- pp. 396-397
- Religion in America
- pp. 398-404
- On Teaching the Appreciation of Poetry
- pp. 405-415
- Tribute to Giuseppe Ungaretti
- pp. 416-417
- Greeting to Landestheater Linz
- pp. 426-427
- Wyndham Lewis. To the Editor of The Observer
- pp. 428-429
- 1961
- Bruce Lyttleton Richmond
- pp. 430-433
- Sir Geoffrey Faber: A Poet among Publishers
- pp. 437-441
- Memorial Tribute for Geoffrey Faber
- pp. 453-455
- To Criticize the Critic
- pp. 456-474
- Mögen Sie Picasso?
- p. 478
- 1962
- Memorial Tribute for Harriet Weaver
- pp. 482-484
- Memorial Tribute for Violet Schiff
- pp. 487-488
- George Herbert
- pp. 498-528
- 1963
- 1964
- Tribute to Wilfred Owen
- p. 554
- Memorial Tribute for Richard Aldington
- pp. 555-556
- On Translation: A Note on George Seferis
- pp. 557-558
- Memorial Tribute for Aldous Huxley
- pp. 559-562
- Preface to Selected Poems: Edwin Muir
- pp. 564-567
- Tribute to Mario Praz
- p. 569
- A Note on The Criterion 1922-1939
- pp. 570-571
- PART II: Signed Letters and Documents with Multiple Authorship
- A Message to Tito (14 Jan 1957)
- pp. 581-582
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421418957
Related ISBN
9781421406893
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OCLC
1118445015
Pages
688
Launched on MUSE
2019-09-11
Language
English
Open Access
No
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