1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 268 pages, [8] pages of plates)
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Originally published: 1999
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-255) and index
Abbreviations; Prelude: The Dark Angel; One: In the Lecture Halls; Two: Hulme of Original Sin; Three: "Our mad poetics to confute": Laforgue and the Personal Voice; Four: The Savage Comedian; Five: In the Music Halls; Illustrations; Six: The Horrific Moment; Seven: First-Rate Blasphemy; Eight: "All Aboard for Natchez, Cairo and St. Louis": The Journey of the Exile in Ash-Wednesday; Nine: The Ignatian Interlude; Ten: "If I think, again, of this place": The Way to Little Gidding; Appendix: American Publishers and the Transmission of T.S. Eliot's Prose; Notes; Index
Schuchard's critical study draws upon previously unpublished and uncollected materials in showing how Eliot's personal voice works through the sordid, the bawdy, the blasphemous, and the horrific to create a unique moral world and the only theory of moral criticism in English literature. The book also erodes conventional attitudes toward Eliot's intellectual and spiritual development, showing how early and consistently his classical and religious sensibility manifests itself in his poetry and criticism. The book examines his reading, his teaching, his bawdy poems, and his life-long attraction
