Ultimately, the organicists were resolute in their belief that agriculture was the fundamental basis of life and should be restored to the center of society. The conception of Eliot as an organicist is a relatively recent devel- opment, ...
Author: Jeremy Diaper
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781942954613
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 232
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This book reads T. S. Eliot’s poetry and plays in light of his sustained preoccupation with organicism. It demonstrates that Eliot’s environmental concerns emerged as a notable theme in his literary works from his early poetry notebook of poems known as Inventions of the March Hare at least until Murder in the Cathedral.
See also Jeremy Diaper, '“In Conformity with Nature': T. S. Eliot's Religious Agrarianism,” in Religion and Myth in ... For more on the New English Weekly, see Philip Conford, The Origins of the Organic Movement (Edinburgh: Floris, ...
Author: John D. Morgenstern
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781949979091
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 288
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Volume 3 features a special forum on “Eliot and Green Modernism,” edited by Julia E. Daniel, as well as a special forum titled “First Readings of the Eliot–Hale Archive,” edited by John Whittier-Ferguson.
Lewis Freed helps to clarify Eliot's view as it reflects Bradley's: Reality takes the form of an "individual totality" or a "concrete universal." The form is that of an organic whole. The unity of the whole is a universal, ...
Author: Eugenia M. Gunner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317308232
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 158
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The fact that Eliot disapproved of Romanticism is clear from his critical essays, where he often appears to reject it absolutely. However, Eliot’s understanding of the term and his appreciation of literature developed and altered greatly from his adolescence to his years of scholarly study, yet he was never unable to dismiss Romanticism entirely as a critical issue. This study, first published in 1985, analyses Eliot’s approach and criticism to Romanticism, with an analysis of The Waste Land, adding to the layers of its meaning, context and content to the poem. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
organic whole instead of a monadic entity . The Romantic ego , unique in the sum ... Lewis Freed helps to clarify Eliot's view as it reflects Bradley's : Reality takes the form of an " individual totality " or a " concrete universal .
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781317290353
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 2418
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This set reissues 10 books on T. S. Eliot originally published between 1952 and 1991. The volumes examine many of Eliot’s most respected works, including his Four Quartets and The Waste Land. As well as exploring Eliot’s work, this collection also provides a comprehensive analysis of the man behind the poetry, particularly in Frederick Tomlin’s T. S. Eliot: A Friendship. This set will be of particular interest to students of literature.
Eliot's idea of culture as an organic whole can be viewed as directly related to his interest in agrarianism in the 1930s and 1940s. For an illuminating discussion of his Notes towards the Definition of Culture as demonstrating his ...
Author: Anna Budziak
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000432060
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 236
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T. S. Eliot once stated that the supreme poet "in writing himself, writes his time". In saying that, he honoured Dante and Shakespeare, but this pithy remark fittingly characterises his own work, including The Ariel Poems, with which he promptly and pointedly responded to the problems of his times. Published with unwavering regularity, a poem a year, the Ariels were composed in the period when Eliot was mainly writing prose; and, like his prose, they reverberated with diverse contemporary issues ranging from the revision of the Book of Common Prayer to the translations of Heidegger to the questions of leadership and populism. In order to highlight the poems' historical specificity, this study seeks to outline the constellations of thought connecting Eliot’s poetry and prose. In addition, it attempts to expose the Ariels’ shared arc of meaning, an unobtrusive incarnational metaphor determining the perspective from which they propose an unorthodox understanding of the epoch— an underlying pattern of thought bringing them together into a conceptually discrete set. This is the first study that both universalizes and historicises the series, striving to disclose the regular without suppressing the random. Approaching the series as a system of orderly disorder, the notion very much at home with chaos theory, it suggests new intellectual contexts, offering interpretations that are either fresh, or significantly reangled.
A pleasantly written essay analyzing Eliot's rejection of love between men and women , and relating that rejection to passages in some of the poems . 1764. ... Steinmann , Martin , Jr. " Coleridge , T. S. Eliot , and Organicism .
Author: Mildred Martin
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838778089
Category: Reference
Page: 380
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Listing and commenting on almost 2700 items, the work provides the only annotated bibliography of a major contemporary author that is virtually complete. Includes three indexes.
“SUCH AS THE LIFE IS, SUCH IS THE FORM”: ORGANICISM AMONG THE MODERNS When in 1930 T. S. Eliot wrote that “words like emergent, organism, biological unity of life, simply do not arouse the right response in my breast,” he was ...
Author: F.R. Burwick
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789400939172
Category: Science
Page: 290
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Frederick Burwick's modest but comprehensive and insightful intro duction is preface enough to these sensible essays in the history and philosophical criticism of ideas. If we want to understand how some in quiring and intelligent thinkers sought to go beyond mechanism and vitalism, we will find Burwick's labors of assembling others and reflect ing on his own part to be as stimulating as anywhere to be found. And yet his initial cautious remark is right: 'approaches', not 'attainments'. The problems associated with clarifying 'matter' and 'form' are still beyond any consensus as to their solution. Even more do we recognize the many forms and meanings of 'form', and this is so even for 'organic form'. That wise scientist-philosopher-engineer Lancelot Law Whyte struggled in a place neighboring to Burwick's, and his essay of thirty years ago might be a scientist's preface to Burwick and his colleagues: see Whyte'S Accent on Form (N. Y., Harper, 1954) and his Symposium of 1951 Aspects of Form (London, Percy Lund Humphries 1951; and Indiana University Press 1961), itself arranged in honor of D' Arcy Thompson's classical monograph On Growth and Form. Philosophy and history of science must deal with these issues, and with the mixture of hard-headedness and imagination that they de mand.
Chapter 8 Planting, Gardens, and Organicism in Literary Modernism Jeremy Diaper T. S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), 73, 48. Hereafter cited as CPP in parentheses in the text.
Author: Jeremy Diaper
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781949979862
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 272
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In drawing together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from across the UK and America, Eco-Modernism offers a diverse range of environmental and ecological interpretations of modernist texts and illustrates that ecocriticism can offer fresh and provocative ways of understanding literary modernism.
Eliot has used organicism to play his programme of pogrom . The proposed change can always be explained ; as also the claims for preserving a status quo . Organicism is economically used for assimilationism .
Henry James's successor as a conservative American expatriate was T. S. Eliot, son of an 'aristocratic' St Louis family. ... Eliot came to Europe with the historic mission of redefining the organic unity of its cultural traditions, ...
Author: Harriet Davidson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781317898870
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 138
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One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot is generally regarded as a leading exponent of the literary movement which came to be known as Modernism. In this volume, Harriet Davidson collects key recent essays by such internationally renowned critics as Terry Eagleton, Sandra Gilbert, Jacqueline Rose, Jeffrey Perl, Christine Froula, Maud Ellmann, and Michael North, placing Eliot's work centrally in the context of postmodern critical theory. Eliot's writing is often perceived as incompatible with or resistant to new theoretical approaches, but this volume demonstrates the continuity between Eliot's own theoretical writings and contemporary theory, and illuminates his poetry with imaginative readings from deconstructive, Marxist, psychoanalytic, and feminist perspectives. Headnotes to the essays and a bibliography which lists other informative readings make this book an invaluable guide to all students of twentieth-century poetry, and to scholars interested in the relationship between critical and creative writing.