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Ausgewahlte Essays 1917-1947.ausgewahlt Und Eingeleitet Von Hans Hennecke


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Binding: Hardcover
Label: Suhrkamp Verlag
Manufacturer: Suhrkamp Verlag
Number Of Pages: 510
Publication Date: January 01, 1950
Publisher: Suhrkamp Verlag
Studio: Suhrkamp Verlag


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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A useful book
The Collected essays are quite useful to my study. They help readers to get further understanding about Eliot's thinking and insight to politics and society in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Also, Elito clearly elucidates his idea in logical writing which may be benefitial to readers' writing.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Stimulating for any student of literature
T.S. Eliot was the dominant figure in modernist literature not just because of his poetry, but also because of his criticism which changed our view of English literature in ways which can still be felt today. He resurrected the forgotten John Donne and had him eclipse John Milton as idol of poetry. He showed that Shakespeare was not the only playwright of his time. He was brillitant at explaining what made modernist literature different from its perdecessors.

Eliot's style is a pleasure ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Only a Poet?
I was very surprised that I got through this book. It is not every day that a person will pick up a collection of essays on Classical, Elizabethan and other types of literature, for enjoyments sake. Eliot really outdid himself with his reviews of the literature that he was surrounded by. The definite reads, if you do not want to go through all the essays, are the essays "Dante", "Hamlet and his Problems" and "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry". "Dante" is a beuatiful study on both the "Divina Comedia" ... Read More




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