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by: Denis Donoghue
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780300097191
ISBN: 0300097190
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: September 01, 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Sales Rank: 1464722
Studio: Yale University Press
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In this text Denis Donoghue presents an account of his engagement with the works of T.S. Eliot. Whether writing about Eliot's poetry or confronting the poet's often contentious prose, Donoghue demonstrates what it means to read and to hear a master of the language.
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Rating: - One of the best books on Eliot's poetry
After going through volumes of literary criticism of Eliot by luminaries like F. R. Leavis, Edmund Wilson, Northrop Frye, and I.A. Richards, Denis Donohue's "Words Alone," (along with an outstanding but out-of-print biography of T.S. Eliot by the great poet Stephen Spender) is, I think, among the best books on Eliot's poetry. Read especially his definition of the symbolist use of words, contrasting its use by Eliot and Yeats.
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