T. S. Eliot

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Standard Name: Eliot, T. S.
Used Form: Thomas Stearns Eliot
TSE , an American settled in England, was the dominant voice in English poetry during the first half of the twentieth century, as well as an immensely influential critic. His early experimental poems excel at catching an atmosphere or mood, often a moment of stasis and self-doubt. The Waste Land, a brilliant collage of fragments, has been seen to express the fears of a whole society about the threatened end of culture and amenity called civilization. After Eliot's conversion to Christianity his poetry moved to sombre investigations of the spiritual life: of time, fate, decision, guilt, and reconciliation. Meanwhile his criticism grappled with the the relation of past to present in terms of the contemporary relationship to tradition. TSE also wrote lively comic verse, and in theatrical writing he moved on from pageant and historical religious drama to symbolic representation of spiritual issues through events in banal daily life.

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Literary responses Wendy Cope
Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan , however, applies a withering pen to WC in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint...
Literary responses Muriel Spark
This notice struck Eliotas one of the two or three most intelligent reviews
qtd. in
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
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he had had, and as quite extraordinary from someone who had seen the play but not yet had a chance...
Literary responses Anne Ridler
When Anne Bradby (later AR ) plucked up courage to show some early poems to T. S. Eliot (though not requesting publication by Faber and Faber ), she was encouraged by his advice: I should...
Literary responses Q. D. Leavis
Fiction and the Reading Public was widely reviewed. In the Criterion of July 1932, T. S. Eliot commended its argument: A society which does not recognize the existence of art is barbaric. But a society...
Literary responses Marianne Moore
Eliot assessed her in his introduction as the greatest living master of light rhyme, and as one of those few who have done the language some service in my lifetime.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Her brother wrote of The...
Material Conditions of Writing Anne Ridler
Ambiguity in English Verse Rhythms in this volume was the only result of a projected book on metrics which T. S. Eliot had suggested, and which AR had worked on during the second world war...
Material Conditions of Writing Virginia Woolf
VW published in T. S. Eliot 's newly-renamed The New Criterion her essay On Being Ill, which she had written the previous autumn while she was indeed ill.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
3: 58n1, 46
Material Conditions of Writing Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS began her literary career with reviewing, and continued to contribute to periodicals. At one time she was art critic for The Queen. During the Second World War she reviewed almost weekly for the...
Occupation Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
By 1930, Kingsley Martin , editor of New Statesman and Nation, noted that Time and Tide was one of the leading British weeklies. It was read by the leaders of the country, including Prime...
Occupation Una Marson
UM was featured alongside Mulk Raj Anand , William Empson , and T. S. Eliot on the BBC 's radio magazine programme Voice edited by Eric Blair (George Orwell) .
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
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Occupation P. L. Travers
Her friend Æ introduced her to the editor of this journal, A. R. Orage . She also served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee, of which T. S. Eliot too was a member.
Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne, 1991.
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Haggarty, Ben. “Refining Nectar”. A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins, edited by Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, Published for the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation by Larson Publications, 1999, pp. 19-24.
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Occupation Algernon Charles Swinburne
ACS is a major Victorian poet and a prominent member of the aesthetic movement (also known as art for art's sake) who enjoyed great popularity and influence. In several ways (his exploration of sexuality...
Occupation John Donne
During the later seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Donne's writings were largely forgotten or disapproved of. In June 1741 the London Magazine printed a regularised (to modern eyes butchered) version of Goe, and catche a...
Occupation Naomi Royde-Smith
By February 1923 NRS was either literary editor on The Nation or still a candidate for the position: Virginia Woolf was trying to unseat her, in order to pull wires and establish T. S. Eliot
Occupation Natalie Clifford Barney
Their goal was to offer financial backing to struggling writers such as T. S. Eliot and Paul Valéry , but the venture failed because Eliot was too embarrassed to accept the money, and Valéry secured...

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