Eliot and His Age
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Eliot and His Age

T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century

  1. 460 pages
  2. English
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Eliot and His Age

T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century

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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Introduction to New Edition
  6. Chapter 1: Eliot and the Follies of the Time
  7. Chapter 2: The Burial of Matthew and Waldo
  8. Chapter 3: Hell and Heartbreak House
  9. Chapter 4: A Criterion in a Time of Hollow Men
  10. Chapter 5: Catholic, Royalist, Classicist
  11. Chapter 6: The Poet, the Statesman, and the Rock
  12. Chapter 7: Christians and Ideologues in Heartbreak House
  13. Chapter 8: The Communication of the Dead
  14. Chapter 9: Culture and Cocktail Parties
  15. Chapter 10: Illusions and Affirmations
  16. Chapter 11: Age and Decrepitude Have No Terrors
  17. Postcript: Pilgrims in the Waste Land
  18. A Note of Thanks
  19. About the Author
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. Copyright