T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
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T. S. Eliot is considered by many to be a literary genius and one of the most influential men of letters during the half-century after World War I. He was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. Eliot attended Harvard University, with time abroad pursuing graduate studies at the visa mer Sorbonne, Marburg, and Oxford. The outbreak of World War I prevented his return to the United States, and, persuaded by Ezra Pound to remain in England, he decided to settle there permanently. He published his influential early criticism, much of it written as occasional pieces for literary periodicals. He developed such doctrines as the "dissociation of sensibility" and the "objective correlative" and elaborated his views on wit and on the relation of tradition to the individual talent. Eliot by this time had left his early, derivative verse far behind and had begun to publish avant-garde poetry (including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which exploited fresh rhythms, abrupt juxtapositions, contemporary subject matter, and witty allusion. This period of creativity also resulted in another collection of verse (including "Gerontian") and culminated in The Waste Land, a masterpiece published in 1922 and produced partly during a period of psychological breakdown while married to his wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. In 1922, Eliot became a director of the Faber & Faber publishing house, and in 1927 he became a British citizen and joined the Church of England. Thereafter, his career underwent a change. With the publication of Ash Wednesday in 1930, his poetry became more overtly Christian. As editor of the influential literary magazine The Criterion, he turned his hand to social as well as literary criticism, with an increasingly conservative orientation. His religious poetry culminated in Four Quartets, published individually from 1936 onward and collectively in 1943. This work is often considered to be his greatest poetic achievement. Eliot also wrote poetry in a much lighter vein, such as Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), a collection that was used during the early 1980s as the basis for the musical, Cats. In addition to his contributions in poetry and criticism, Eliot is the pivotal verse dramatist of this century. He followed the lead of William Butler Yeats in attempting to revive metrical language in the theater. But, unlike Yeats, Eliot wanted a dramatic verse that would be self-effacing, capable of expressing the most prosaic passages in a play, and an insistent, undetected presence capable of elevating itself at a moment's notice. His progression from the pageant The Rock (1934) and Murder in the Cathedral (1935), written for the Canterbury Festival, through The Family Reunion (1939) and The Cocktail Party (1949), a West End hit, was thus a matter of neutralizing obvious poetic effects and bringing prose passages into the flow of verse. Recent critics have seen Eliot as a divided figure, covertly attracted to the very elements (romanticism, personality, heresy) he overtly condemned. His early attacks on romantic poets, for example, often reveal him as a romantic against the grain. The same divisions carry over into his verse, where violence struggles against restraint, emotion against order, and imagination against ironic detachment. This Eliot is more human and more attractive to contemporary taste. During his lifetime, Eliot received many honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (1971) 494 exemplar
Morr-Tigers oväntade slut samt Striden mellan pekingeserna och terrierna och Jellikekattornas sång (1986) 139 exemplar
La tierra baldía/ The Waste Land: Prufrock y otras observaciones / Prufrock and Other Observations (Spanish Edition) (2015) 22 exemplar
Works of T. S. Eliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land, Portrait of a Lady & more (Mobi… (2010) 19 exemplar
Poemas (Em Portugues do Brasil) 18 exemplar
Preludes 14 exemplar
Gedichten, toneel en essays 13 exemplar
T.S. Eliot Reads: Four Quartets, the Waste Land, the Hollow Men, and Other of His Poems/Audio Cassettes (The Great… (1992) 9 exemplar
Poems and prose 8 exemplar
Let Us Go Then: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Obvious State Classics Collection) (2019) 8 exemplar
T. S. Eliot: Collection of Poetry, Poems, and other Works (42 in total) with analysis and historical background… (2013) 6 exemplar
From Poe to Valery 6 exemplar
Letters (5 vols.) 5 exemplar
Early Poetical Works 5 exemplar
Utvalgte essays 4 exemplar
Poèmes : 1910-1930 4 exemplar
Valik esseid 4 exemplar
The music of poetry; the third W. P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 24th February 1942 (1942) 4 exemplar
Le opere: Poesia, prosa, teatro 3 exemplar
Vad är en klassiker? och andra essayer 3 exemplar
Om poesi : essayer 3 exemplar
T. S. Eliot : British Poets Of Our Time 3 exemplar
Ensaios 2 exemplar
Essays I und II. 2 Bde. 2 exemplar
Poesías completas. Volumen I: Poesía, 1909-1962 (Visor de Poesía Maior) (Spanish Edition) (2017) 2 exemplar
The Waste Land and other poems 2 exemplar
Religious drama: mediaeval and modern 2 exemplar
The cantos of Ezra Pound : some testimonies 2 exemplar
TheWaste Land — Författare — 2 exemplar
Waste Land, The 2 exemplar
Teatro 2 exemplar
Tradition and the Individual Talent 2 exemplar
The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot 2 exemplar
Antologia Poética 2 exemplar
"Ulysses, Order, and Myth" 2 exemplar
Essays 2 (Literaturkritik) [= T.S. Eliot, Werke II; zugleich: suhrkamp taschenbuch (st), Band 1562] 2 exemplar
Ausgewählte Gedichte [engl.-dt.] 2 exemplar
T. S. Eliot (Arco Literary Critiques) 2 exemplar
Thoughts after Lambeth 2 exemplar
Ausgewählte Essays 1917-1947 2 exemplar
Edebiyat üzerine düşünceler 2 exemplar
Poetry by T.S. Eliot 2 exemplar
Il sermone del fuoco 2 exemplar
Poetry by T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the Waste Land, Four Quartetes, the Love Song of J. Alfred… (2010) 2 exemplar
O tempo (ir)redimível 1 exemplar
Preludes (2nd edition) 1 exemplar
“La Figlia Che Piange” 1 exemplar
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” 1 exemplar
The Waste Land and Other Poems 1 exemplar
The Use Of Poetry And The Use Of Criticism 1 exemplar
The Family Reunion a Play 1 exemplar
Rare Antique Film Murder In The Cathedral T.S. Eliot Play 1st Edition First Print Nobel Prize 1 exemplar
Der Vers. 1 exemplar
Criticar al crítico y otros escritos 1 exemplar
The 100 Greatest Books of All Time 1 exemplar
The Coctail Party 1 exemplar
The Hollow Man 1 exemplar
Great Poets of the 20th Century: T.S. Eliot 1 exemplar
Dikter i urval 1 exemplar
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” 1 exemplar
La Tierra Baldía. Y Prufrock Y Otras Observaciones (LUMEN) de T.S. ELIOT (15 ene 2015) Tapa dura 1 exemplar
The Sacred Wood (Mint Editions (Nonfiction Narratives: Essays, Speeches and Full-Length Work)) 1 exemplar
Ther Elder Statesman 1 exemplar
“East Coker” 1 exemplar
Portrait of a Lady [poem] 1 exemplar
La terra desolata - Quattro quadretti 1 exemplar
The waste land and other poems 1 exemplar
Water 1 exemplar
tin house 1 exemplar
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and Other Poems 1 exemplar
T S Eliot Collected Plays 1 exemplar
A Terra Desolada 1 exemplar
ELIOTER KABITA 1 exemplar
The Naming of Cats [poem] 1 exemplar
Válogatott versek 1 exemplar
A note on the verse of John Milton 1 exemplar
Macskák könyve 1 exemplar
Poemas 1 exemplar
Poezi të zgjedhura 1 exemplar
Pesmi 1 exemplar
Eliot Thomas Stearns 1 exemplar
Dryden: A Collection of Critical Essays 1 exemplar
The Criterion. A quarterly review. [Edited by T. S. Eliot.] vol. 1-3. no. 1-12. Oct. 1922-July 1925 1 exemplar
Religione e letteratura 1 exemplar
Tre Poesie Di T.S. Eliot. 1 exemplar
T. S. Eliot special issue : including "Scylla and Charybdis", a hitherto unpublished lecture 1 exemplar
T.S. Eliot: Best 3 Poems (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, and The Waste Land) (2012) 1 exemplar
The Criterion 1 exemplar
Charles Whibely : a memoir 1 exemplar
The Criterion : quarterly review 1 exemplar
Old Possum's book of practical cats: Calendar for 1991, with excerpts from the poems (1990) 1 exemplar
T. S. Eliot - Poems 1 exemplar
T.S Eliot the Complete Works 1 exemplar
The Complete Poems And Essays 1 exemplar
Opere... Poesie 1 exemplar
Pensees 1 exemplar
T.S. Eliot collection 1 exemplar
Whispers of Immortality [poem] 1 exemplar
Gerontion [poem] 1 exemplar
The Hippopotamus [poem] 1 exemplar
Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral (Spanish Edition) (2016) 1 exemplar
Retrato de una dama y otros poemas 1 exemplar
The complete prose of T.S. Eliot. Volume 3, Literature, politics, belief, 1927-1929 (2014) 1 exemplar
Words for music 1 exemplar
Two poems 1 exemplar
Growlers Last Stand 1 exemplar
The undergraduate poems of T. S. Eliot : published while he was at college in The Harvard Advocate 1 exemplar
Çorak Ülke - Cevap Çapan 1 exemplar
Denemeler 1 exemplar
Izabrane pesme 1 exemplar
Was ist ein Klassiker? 1 exemplar
Les Hommes creux 1 exemplar
A essência da poesia 1 exemplar
A group of four titles. 1 exemplar
T.S. Eliot, Tétralogie (Quatre Quatuors) 1 exemplar
Sweeney Among the Nightingales [poem] 1 exemplar
Verse of John Milton 1 exemplar
The Letters of T.S. Elliot 1 exemplar
Memoir 1 exemplar
Poemas 1910-1930 1 exemplar
Versek Drámák Macskák könyve 1 exemplar
Examen crítico de T.S. Eliot "Tierra baldía" 1 exemplar
SOBRE LA POESIA Y LOS POETAS 1 exemplar
CATS....Broadway Musical Production (Cats Program Book...1981 , The Cast of Cats...1981 , Cats Playbill... Forrest… (1981) 1 exemplar
Crime na catedral ; Quatro quartetos 1 exemplar
Stücke 1 exemplar
Hamlet and His Problems 1 exemplar
Poesia de T S ELIOT - TEXTO INTEGRAL 1 exemplar
Two Poems of Early Youth 1 exemplar
Waste Land, The (abridged) 1 exemplar
The Rock 1 exemplar
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A Choice of Kipling's Verse made by T. S. Eliot with an essay on Rudyard Kipling (1941) — Redaktör — 228 exemplar
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The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 99 exemplar
Permanent Things: Toward the Recovery of a More Human Scale at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 88 exemplar
Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
Nine Great Plays: From Aeschylus to Eliot (Revised Edition) (1950) — Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
The question of Henry James: a collection of critical essays (1945) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 18 exemplar
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
Seneca: His Tenne Tragedies Translated into English. Edited by Thomas Newton, introduction by T. S. Eliot. (1966) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 9 exemplar
Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection: Cats / Jesus Christ Superstar / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat / The… (2004) — vissa utgåvor — 7 exemplar
Oskar Kokoschka, Städteportraits : Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit der Oskar… (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
American poets, an anthology of contemporary verse — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Wege zu Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro). Drei Jahrzehnte Begegnungen in Dichtung u. Wissenschaft (1976) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
William Shakespeare: Coriolanus [theatre programme] — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1): Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns
- Andra namn
- Eliot, Tom
Old Possum
Conybeare, Charles Augustus
Grimble, Reverend Charles James
Schwartz, Muriel A.
Spence, J. A. D. (visa alla 8)
Trundlett, Helen B.
Krutzch, Gus - Födelsedag
- 1888-09-26
- Avled
- 1965-01-04
- Begravningsplats
- St. Michael's Church, East Coker, Somerset, England, UK
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA (birth)
UK (naturalized) - Födelseort
- St. Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
- Dödsort
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Dödsorsak
- Emphysema
- Bostadsorter
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France
London, England, UK - Utbildning
- Harvard University (BA ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1909)
Harvard University (MA ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1910)
Sorbonne, Paris, France
University of Oxford (Merton College) - Yrken
- poet
literary critic
playwright
publisher
editor
banker (visa alla 8)
professor
essayist / reviewer - Relationer
- Eliot, Valerie née Fletcher (second wife)
Eliot, William Greenleaf (grandfather)
Eliot, Charlotte (mother)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Aiken, Conrad (friend)
Russell, Bertrand (friend) (visa alla 21)
Yeats, William Butler (friend)
Lewis, Wyndham (friend)
Joyce, James (friend)
Valery, Paul (friend)
Moore, Marianne (friend)
Hayward, John Davy (friend)
Read, Herbert (friend)
Sencourt, Robert (friend)
Trevelyan, Mary (friend)
Zabel, Morton Dauwen (friend)
Betjeman, John (student)
Santayana, George (teacher)
Babbitt, Irving (teacher)
Bergson, Henri (teacher)
Vivienne Eliot née Haigh-Wood - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (honorary member)
Lloyds Bank (clerk)
The Criterion (founder and editor)
The Egoist (assistant editor)
Poetry magazine (contributor)
Faber and Faber (literary editor) (visa alla 26)
Society of King Charles the Martyr
Wesleyan University Press
Classical Association (president)
Virgil Society (president)
Books Across the Sea (president)
Accademia dei Lincei (foreign member)
Bayerische Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste (foreign member)
Athenaeum
Garrick Club
Oxford and Cambridge Club
London Library (president)
High Wycombe Grammar School, London (teacher)
Highgate School, London (teacher)
Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry)
Harvard University (Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecturer)
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (resident)
University of Virginia (Page-Barbour Lecturer)
University of Chicago (lecturer)
Library of Congress (lecturer)
Trinity College, Cambridge (Clark Lecturer) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Premi Nobel de Literatura, 1948
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
LE: The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot i Folio Society Devotees (september 19)
Who is your favorite poet? i Young Fogey's Fire Place (april 29)
Jeremy Irons reads 'The Naming of Cats' i Cats, books, life is good. (januari 2016)
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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) föddes i USA men bosatte sig tidigt i London. Han fick nobelpriset 1948. Dikter är ett rikt och representativt urval, grupperat kring de två mästerverken Det öde landet, i Karin Boyes och Erik Mestertons tolkning, och Fyra kvartetter, översatta av Artur Lundkvist, Thomas Warburton och Gunnar Ekelöf, som också skrivit bokens inledning.
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