This book offers the first complete account of T. S. Eliot's preoccupation with organicism and establishes Eliot's prominent place in the British organic husbandry movement. It elucidates considerations of agricultural and environmental ...
Author: Jeremy Diaper
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781942954613
Category: Agriculture in literature
Page: 218
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For the first time at any length, this book offers readings of 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 notebook of poems known as Inventions of the March Hare up to Murder in the Cathedral.