Eliot's Objective Correlative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eliot's Objective Correlative write by Flemming Olsen. This book was released on 2012. Eliot's Objective Correlative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. T.S. Eliot's dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted, but rarely analyzed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input has to be processed by the poet's intellect. Respect for control of feelings and order of presentation were central to Eliot's conception of literary criticism. The result - the objective correlative - is not one word, but "a scene" or "a chain of events." Eliot's thinking was also inspired by late 19th-century French critics, like Gautier and Gourmont, whose terminology he not infrequently borrowed. But he chose the term "objective" out of respect for the prestige that still surrounded the Positivist paradigm. In its break-away from Positivist dogmas, criticism of art in the early 20th century was very much preoccupied with form. In poetry, that meant focus on the use and function of the word. That focus is perceptible everywhere in Eliot's criticism. Even though the idea of the objective correlative was not an original one, Eliot's treatment of it is interesting because he sees a seeming truism ("the right word in the right place") in a new light. He never developed the theory, but the thought is traceable in several of his critical essays. On account of its categorical and rudimentary form, the theory is not unproblematic: whose fault is it if the reader's response does not square with the poet's intention? And indeed, T.S. Eliot's own practice belies his theory - witness the multifarious legitimate interpretations of his poems.
The Sacred Wood
The Sacred Wood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sacred Wood write by Thomas Stearns Eliot. This book was released on 1921. The Sacred Wood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interpretations of Poetry and Religion write by George Santayana. This book was released on 1900. Interpretations of Poetry and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings
To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings write by Thomas Stearns Eliot. This book was released on 1992-01-01. To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These influential essay and lectures by T. S. Eliot span nearly a half century--from 1917, when he published The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, to 1961, four years before his death. With the luminosity and clarity of a first-rate intellect, Eliot considers the uses of literary criticism, the writers who had the greatest influence on his own work, and the importance of being truly educated. Every thoughtful person who yearns to do more than simply get through the day will be reinforced by The Aims of Education. Other pieces include To Criticize the Critic, From Poe to Valäry, American Literature and the American Language, What Dante Means to Me, The Literature of Politics, The Classics and the Man of Letters, Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry, and Reflections on Vers Libre.
Four Quartets
Four Quartets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Quartets write by T. S. Eliot. This book was released on 2014-03-10. Four Quartets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.
