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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780300097191
Edition: First Edition
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
Studio: Yale University Press
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A distinguished reader of modern literature here offers his most personal book of literary criticism, presenting an illuminating 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 eloquently demonstrates what it means to hear and read a master of the language.
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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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Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780300097191
Edition: First Edition
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
Studio: Yale University Press