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

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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.

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 David Morgenstern

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

ISBN: 9781949979091

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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.

This book makes an important contribution to environmental modernism and establishes that Eliot had a pivotal role in the emergence of the organic movement"--

Author: Jeremy Diaper

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ISBN: 1942954603

Category: Agriculture in literature

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"T. S. Eliot and Organicism covers new ground by demonstrating that a thorough understanding of Eliot's engagement with agriculture and the environment is vital to our interpretation of his work. This book makes an important contribution to environmental modernism and establishes that Eliot had a pivotal role in the emergence of the organic movement"--

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

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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.

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

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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

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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.

Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle (Stanford, 2000), 207–27; Jeremy Diaper, 'A Christian Community: T. S. Eliot and the Christian News-Letter', in T. S. Eliot and Organicism, 99–142; and (notably) John Carter Wood, This is your hour: ...

Author: T. S. Eliot

Publisher: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 9780571362820

Category: Literary Collections

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This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett, Charles Williams and Virginia Woolf. Four Quartets, Eliot's culminating masterpiece, is discussed in detail.

We cannot so far explain organicism or mechanicism – two perennial constitutive metaphors – by reference to some “mysterious ... Mercer University, Atlanta NOTES T. S. Eliot, A Review of God: Being an Introduction to the Science of ...

Author: F.R. Burwick

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789400939172

Category: Science

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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.

... in the Work of T. S. Eliot Jeremy Diaper 1 I gratefully acknowledge permission from Scott Freer and Paul Keers to reprint some sections of this chapter which appeared in an earlier article, “T. S. Eliot and British Organicism: Food, ...

Author: Derek Gladwin

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

ISBN: 9781942954699

Category: Electronic books

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This volume of essays surveys gastronomy across global literary modernisms. The phenomenon of food culture is iconically modern. Modernists explore public and domestic spaces where food and drink are prepared and served, as much as they create them in the modernist imagination through narrative, language, and style. Modernism as a cultural and artistic movement also highlights the historical politics of food and eating. As the chapters in Gastro-Modernism reveal, critical trends in food studies alert us to many social concerns that emerge in the modernist period because of expanding food literacy and culture. The result is that food production, consumption, and scarcity are abiding themes in modernist literature and culture, reflecting tensions amidst colonial, agricultural, and industrial settings. This timely volume ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with food culture known as gastronomy to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce.

Eliot engages in a critique of the ' traditional poets , most eminently Dante ( 18-19 ) to exemplify his precept ... This central manifesto of Vorticism bears close affinities to Eliot's organicism , conservatism and contemporaneity .

Author: Nidhi Tiwari

Publisher: Sarup & Sons

ISBN: 8176255734

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