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T. S. ELIOT: MAN AND POET (2 Volumes)
Volume 1, Edited by Laura Cowan
Volume 2, Annotated Bibliography by Sebastian
D. G. Knowles & Scott A. Leonard
T. S. Eliot: Man and Poet is the 11th book in the National Poetry Foundation's Man/Woman and Poet Series and the fourth commemorative centennial work. Its tone is--appropriately--celebratory. More than one hundred years after his birth (and twenty-five years after his death), Thomas Stearns Eliot remains arguably the leading English or American poet of the twentieth century and the author of undeniably its most influential poem. His poetry and criticism were so rapidly and completely enshrined that they--and the New Critical principles of interpretation that they engendered--dominated both poetry and its analysis until well into the 1970s. The echoes of his influence still resound.
The twenty-two essays in this collection testify to the wealth of contemporary criticism and also to the still rich potential of Eliot's work. The articles, which cover his poetry, plays, and criticism, range widely in both subject and method.
Volume One contains contributions by: Richard Badenhausen, Shyamal Bagchee, Joseph Bentley, Jewel Spears Brooker, Ronald Bush, Barbara Everett, Harvey Gross, Joan Fillmore Hooker, Cleo McNelly Kearns, Hugh Kenner, Edward Lobb, James Longenbach, Louis Martz, James E. Miller, Jr., A. D. Moody, Russell Elliott Murphy, Jeffrey M. Perl, J. P. Riquelme, Sanford Schwartz, Mohammad Shaheen, Richard Shusterman, and W. B. Worthen.
Volume Two is an Annotated Bibliography of a Decade of T.
S. Eliot Criticism: 1977-1986
Volume 1, 1990 407 pages
Cloth O.P. (0-943373-09-3)
Paper $25.00 (0-943373-10-7)
Volume 2, 1991 400 pages
Cloth $50.00 (0-943373-11-5)
Paper $25.00 (0-943373-12-3)
Both volumes:
Paper $45.00