The making of T.S. Eliot : a study of the literary influences / Joseph Maddrey.
"Eliot remains one of the world's most celebrated 20th century poets. He is often cited as an authority on modern art, philosophy, and religion, despite that his words are cited in an overwhelming variety of conflicting contexts. This survey covers the poet's spiritual and intellectua...
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: A point of departure (1905-1910). Childhood ; Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Fitzgerald: shadowy sounds from visionary wings ; Fin de siècle ; William Butler Yeats and Arthur Symons: dance on deathless feet ; Charles Baudelaire: something new ; Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine: something sacred ; Jules Laforgue: an art of the nerves ; Inventions
- Part II: A passion for wholeness (1910-1911). The teachings of Irving Babbitt ; The soul of Homer ; The birth of tragedy ; The epistemology of Plato ; The metaphysics of Aristotle ; The life of reason ; The metamorphoses of the Roman Empire ; The birth of Christianity ; The confessions of St. Augustine ; The Inferno of Dante ; The legend of Shakespeare ; Eliot and Shakespeare, "Hamlet and his problems" ; Interlude in Paris ; Henri Bergson: creative evolution ; Walt Whitman: mosaic ; Portrait of the artist as a young man
- Part III: Appearance and reality (1911-1915). Prelude ; The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ; The Bhagavad Gita ; The light of Asia ; Buddhism, Christianity and the Fire Sermon ; Josiah Royce: the problem of Christianity ; Mysticism ; The burnt dancer ; Bertrand Russell: mysticism and logic ; First debate between body and soul ; F.H. Bradley: notes towards the absolute ; Eliot, Bradley and symbolism ; T.E. Hulme: castles in the air ; The death of Saint Narcissus
- Part IV: The beginning of wisdom (1915-1920). Vivienne ; The education of Henry Adams ; Matthew Arnold: the function of criticism ; Four Jacobean dramatists ; Thomas Middleton: a game of chess ; John Webster: the skull beneath the skin ; Saving Tom ; Saving Sweeney ; John Donne: whispers of immortality ; William Wordsworth: intimations of immortality ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge: the secondary imagination ; Supernatural horror in Shelley and Browning ; William Blake: the religion of art ; Lines for an old man ; The alchemy of words ; Breakdown
- Part V: Beyond good and evil (1920-1921). The decline of the West ; Goethe: prelude to a philosophy of the future ; Friedrich Nietzsche: beyond good and evil ; Zarathustra: Nietzsche as symbolist poet ; Fyodor Dostoevsky: in sight of chaos ; Herman Hesse: the journey to the East ; Carl Jung and James George Frazer: symbols of transformation ; The mythical method ; Arthurian legend ; From ritual to romance ; Breakthrough ; The waste land: the burial of the dead (Part I) ; The waste land: the burial of the dead (Part II) ; The waste land: a game of chess / In the cage ; The waste land: the Fire Sermon ; The waste land: death by water ; The waste land: what the thunder said (Part I) ; The waste land: what the thunder said (Part II)
- Part VI: Between dying and birth (1922-1930). Purgatory ; Dante II: the new love ; The varieties of metaphysical poetry ; Lancelot Andrewes ; Death's other kingdom ; Joseph Conrad: Heart of darkness ; Paul Valéry: between the motion and the act ; Poetry and belief ; Belief and politics ; The wine of the Puritans ; Ralph Waldo Emerson: the web of God ; The Hawthorne aspect of Henry James ; Ash Wednesday and the Ariel poems: a Iong journey ; Ash Wednesday and the Ariel poems: the turning point ; Ash Wednesday and the Ariel poems: after the turning ; Ash Wednesday and the Ariel poems: life in flux
- Lusts of an Old Man
- Afterword
- Appendix I: A chronology of Eliot's collected poetry, written between 1905 and 1916
- Appendix II: A chronology of Eliot's collected poetry and fiction, published between 1915 and 1930
- Appendix III: A chronology of Eliot's collected criticism, 1916-1932.