
- 460 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Though much has been written about T. S. Eliot since it was first published, Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to the poet's life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk's view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot's writings are informed by wide reading in the same authors who most influenced the poet, as well as by similar experiences and convictions. Kirk elaborates here a significant theory of literary meaning in general, showing how great literary works awaken our intuitive reason, giving us profound visions of truth that transcend logical processes. And he traces Eliot's political and cultural ideas to their true sources, showing the balance and subtlety of Eliot's views. Eliot and His Age is a literary biography that will endure when much of the more recent writing on Eliot is gathering dust.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction to New Edition
- Chapter 1: Eliot and the Follies of the Time
- Chapter 2: The Burial of Matthew and Waldo
- Chapter 3: Hell and Heartbreak House
- Chapter 4: A Criterion in a Time of Hollow Men
- Chapter 5: Catholic, Royalist, Classicist
- Chapter 6: The Poet, the Statesman, and the Rock
- Chapter 7: Christians and Ideologues in Heartbreak House
- Chapter 8: The Communication of the Dead
- Chapter 9: Culture and Cocktail Parties
- Chapter 10: Illusions and Affirmations
- Chapter 11: Age and Decrepitude Have No Terrors
- Postcript: Pilgrims in the Waste Land
- A Note of Thanks
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright