1st Edition
T.S. Eliot's Civilized Savage Religious Eroticism and Poetics
By Laurie MacDiarmid
Copyright 2003
240 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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T. S. Eliot's Civilized Savage revisits this poet's drafts and canonical poetry in a sometimes dismissive critical arena . While contemporary readers emphasize Eliot's charged personal life, his anti-Semitism, his political conservatism, and his misogyny, Laurie MacDiarmid argues that although Eliot's poetics are shaped by private fears and fantasies, in many ways these are the ghosts of a... Read more
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. 'The Death of Saint Narcissus': A Poet's Cautionary TaleChapter 2. The Poet-Prophet in the Mouth of MadnessChapter 3. TransformationsChapter 4. Madness or Mysticism: Eliot's Dream-Crossed TwilightChapter 5. Return of the Repressed Afterword Bibliography
Biography
Laurie MacDiarmid
