T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews (American Critical Archives)

646 Pages·2004·2.47 MB·English

by  Jewel Spears Brooker

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TheAmericanCriticalArchivesisaseriesofreferencebooksthatproviderep-
resentative selections of contemporary reviews of the main works of major
American authors. Specifically, each volume contains both full reviews and
excerpts from reviews that appeared in newspapers and weekly and monthly
periodicals,generallywithinafewmonthsofthepublicationoftheworkcon-
cerned.Thereisanintroductoryhistoricaloverviewbyavolumeeditor,aswell
aschecklistsofadditionalreviewslocatedbutnotquoted.
T. S. Eliot is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential
poetsofthetwentiethcentury.Hewasalsoextremelyprolific.T.S.Eliot:The
ContemporaryReviewsisatestamenttobothoftheseaspectsofEliot’swork.
Init,JewelSpearsBrookerpresentsthemostcomprehensivegatheringofnews-
paperandmagazinereviewsofEliot’sworkeverassembled.Itincludesreviews
frombothAmericanandBritishjournals.Brookerexpandsonthemajorthemes
ofthereviewsandshowshowthereviewsthemselvesinfluencednotonlyEliot,
butalsoliteraryhistoryinthetwentiethcentury.

AMERICAN CRITICAL ARCHIVES 10
T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews
TheAmericanCriticalArchives
General Editor:M.ThomasInge,Randolph-MaconCollege
1. EmersonandThoreau:TheContemporaryReviews,editedbyJoel
Myerson
2. EdithWharton:TheContemporaryReviews,editedbyJamesW.Tuttleton,
KristinO.Lauer,andMargaretP.Murray
3. EllenGlasgow:TheContemporaryReviews,editedbyDorothyM.Scura
4. NathanielHawthorne:TheContemporaryReviews,editedbyJohnL.Idol,
Jr.,andBufordJones
5. WilliamFaulkner:TheContemporaryReviews,editedbyM.ThomasInge
6. HermanMelville:TheContemporaryReviews,editedbyBrianHiggins
andHershelParker
7. HenryJames:TheContemporaryReviews,editedbyKevinJ.Hayes
8. JohnSteinbeck:TheContemporaryReviews,editedbyJosephR.
McElrath,Jr.,JesseS.Crisler,andSusanShillinglaw
9. WaltWhitman:TheContemporaryReviews,editedbyKennethM.Price
T. S. Eliot
The Contemporary Reviews
Edited by
Jewel Spears Brooker
EckerdCollege
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