1st Edition
An Analysis of T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood Essays on Poetry and Criticism
Ways in to the Text
Who was T. S. Elliott?
What does The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism Say?
Why does The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism Matter?
Section 1: Influences
Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context
Module 2: Academic Context
Module 3: The Problem
Module 4: The Author's Contribution
Section 2: Ideas
Module 5: Main Ideas
Module 6: Secondary Ideas
Module 7: Achievement
Module 8: Place in the Author's Work
Section 3: Impact
Module 9: The First Responses
Module 10: The Evolving Debate
Module 11: Impact and Influence Today
Module 12: Where Next?
Glossary of Terms
People Mentioned in the Text
Works Cited
Biography
Rachel Teubner teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Her work focuses on the intertextual relationships between religious and literary works, and the representation of religious thought in poetry. She is completing work on a PhD focused on representations of religious thought and experience in literature, particularly in poetry. This includes interpreting authors such as Dante and Hopkins as readers of classical sources, as well as considering such 20th century poetic respondents to Dante as T.S. Eliot and James Merrill.
