This book offers a comprehensive study of Eliot's philosophical writings and attempts to assess their impact on both his early poetry and his literary criticism. Rafey Habib attempts to unravel the complex notions of irony underlying Eliot's poetry, arguing that these originate in his philosophical thinking and achieve persistent expression in his early aesthetics. This book offers close readings of Eliot's major poems and critical essays, shedding valuable light on his views on language, tradition, impersonality and emotion, and situating these in a broad aesthetic and philosophical...
This book offers a comprehensive study of Eliot's philosophical writings and attempts to assess their impact on both his early poetry and his literary...
This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts.
Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era
Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context
Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction
This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major moveme...
