T. S. Eliot A Voice Descanting Centenary Essays [Paperback]

Using a variety of approaches from the traditional to the post-modern, this volume brings together essays by 14 scholars who examine T.S.Eliot's poetry and criticism. These essays were written and edited on the occasion of Eliot's birth centenary. Preludes as prelude - in defense of Eliot as Symboliste, Charles Altieri; The Waste Land - a drama of images, Armin Paul Frank; It is impossible to say just what I mean - The Waste Land as transcendent meaning, Russell Murphy; circles of progress in T.S. Eliot's poetry - Ash Wednesday as a model, Lois Cuddy; Eliot, Pound and Burnt Norton , Keith Alldritt; knowing reality - a reading of Four Quartets , Patrick Grant; What is the wind doing? - winds and their functions in Eliot's poetry, Marrianne Thormahlen; Eliot and the ghost of Poe, Grover Smith; reflections on T.S.Eliot's vers libre , Peter Egri; scene again, Robin Grove;' Eliot and the mutations of objectivity, Richard Shusterman; T.S.Eliot and F.R. Leavis, G. Singh; Eliot and the poetics of unpleasantness, Shyamal Bagchee; Eliot's significance as a critic - then and now, John Needham; on Four Quartets , four paintings, David Finn.