
The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 3
T. S. Eliot(Author)
Archie Burnett(Editor)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 15. August 2024
Book
Hardback
880 pages
978-0-571-29552-4 (ISBN)
Description
T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's 'Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings.
The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death.
This third volume collects Eliot's prose from 1935-1950, when his works The Idea of a Christian Society (1939) and The Music of Poetry (1942) would engage the seminal grounds of his Four Quartets, while his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) would appear at the moment he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was a period of experimentation in form and genre, in which writings for the theatre were taking centre stage and he was composing for the first time for children, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death.
This third volume collects Eliot's prose from 1935-1950, when his works The Idea of a Christian Society (1939) and The Music of Poetry (1942) would engage the seminal grounds of his Four Quartets, while his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) would appear at the moment he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was a period of experimentation in form and genre, in which writings for the theatre were taking centre stage and he was composing for the first time for children, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 42 mm
Weight
1160 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-29552-4 (9780571295524)
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
A graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, Archie Burnett is best known for his scholarly editions of the poems and letters of A. E. Housman (1997, 2007) and the poems of Philip Larkin (Faber, 2012). He has been a Co-Director (2001-15) and Director (2015-22) of The Editorial Institute at Boston University, and currently serves as Professor in the English Literature Department.
A graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, Archie Burnett is best known for his scholarly editions of the poems and letters of A. E. Housman (1997, 2007) and the poems of Philip Larkin (Faber, 2012). He has been a Co-Director (2001-15) and Director (2015-22) of The Editorial Institute at Boston University, and currently serves as Professor in the English Literature Department.