T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Autor(a) de Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
About the Author
T. S. Eliot is considered by many to be a literary genius and one of the most influential men of letters during the half-century after World War I. He was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. Eliot attended Harvard University, with time abroad pursuing graduate studies at the mostrar mais Sorbonne, Marburg, and Oxford. The outbreak of World War I prevented his return to the United States, and, persuaded by Ezra Pound to remain in England, he decided to settle there permanently. He published his influential early criticism, much of it written as occasional pieces for literary periodicals. He developed such doctrines as the "dissociation of sensibility" and the "objective correlative" and elaborated his views on wit and on the relation of tradition to the individual talent. Eliot by this time had left his early, derivative verse far behind and had begun to publish avant-garde poetry (including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which exploited fresh rhythms, abrupt juxtapositions, contemporary subject matter, and witty allusion. This period of creativity also resulted in another collection of verse (including "Gerontian") and culminated in The Waste Land, a masterpiece published in 1922 and produced partly during a period of psychological breakdown while married to his wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. In 1922, Eliot became a director of the Faber & Faber publishing house, and in 1927 he became a British citizen and joined the Church of England. Thereafter, his career underwent a change. With the publication of Ash Wednesday in 1930, his poetry became more overtly Christian. As editor of the influential literary magazine The Criterion, he turned his hand to social as well as literary criticism, with an increasingly conservative orientation. His religious poetry culminated in Four Quartets, published individually from 1936 onward and collectively in 1943. This work is often considered to be his greatest poetic achievement. Eliot also wrote poetry in a much lighter vein, such as Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), a collection that was used during the early 1980s as the basis for the musical, Cats. In addition to his contributions in poetry and criticism, Eliot is the pivotal verse dramatist of this century. He followed the lead of William Butler Yeats in attempting to revive metrical language in the theater. But, unlike Yeats, Eliot wanted a dramatic verse that would be self-effacing, capable of expressing the most prosaic passages in a play, and an insistent, undetected presence capable of elevating itself at a moment's notice. His progression from the pageant The Rock (1934) and Murder in the Cathedral (1935), written for the Canterbury Festival, through The Family Reunion (1939) and The Cocktail Party (1949), a West End hit, was thus a matter of neutralizing obvious poetic effects and bringing prose passages into the flow of verse. Recent critics have seen Eliot as a divided figure, covertly attracted to the very elements (romanticism, personality, heresy) he overtly condemned. His early attacks on romantic poets, for example, often reveal him as a romantic against the grain. The same divisions carry over into his verse, where violence struggles against restraint, emotion against order, and imagination against ironic detachment. This Eliot is more human and more attractive to contemporary taste. During his lifetime, Eliot received many honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (1971) 497 exemplares
La tierra baldía/ The Waste Land: Prufrock y otras observaciones / Prufrock and Other Observations (Spanish Edition) (2015) 23 exemplares
Works of T. S. Eliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land, Portrait of a Lady & more (Mobi… (2010) 19 exemplares
Preludes 15 exemplares
Gedichten, toneel en essays 13 exemplares
The Waste Land and other poems 10 exemplares
T.S. Eliot Reads: Four Quartets, the Waste Land, the Hollow Men, and Other of His Poems/Audio Cassettes (The Great… (1992) 9 exemplares
Poems and prose 9 exemplares
Let Us Go Then: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Obvious State Classics Collection) (2019) 8 exemplares
From Poe to Valery 7 exemplares
T. S. Eliot: Collection of Poetry, Poems, and other Works (42 in total) with analysis and historical background… (2013) 6 exemplares
Early Poetical Works 5 exemplares
Delphi Poetical Works of T. S. Eliot (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 45) (2014) 5 exemplares
Letters (5 vols.) 5 exemplares
Poèmes : 1910-1930 4 exemplares
The Waste Land and Other Poems Read by T. S. Eliot 4 exemplares
Valik esseid 4 exemplares
Utvalgte essays 4 exemplares
The music of poetry; the third W. P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 24th February 1942 (1942) 4 exemplares
George Herbert. Writers and Their Work No. 152 4 exemplares
T. S. Eliot : British Poets Of Our Time 3 exemplares
The Collected Works of T.S. Eliot (featuring the Waste Land, 2 collections of poetry, and more, all with an active… 3 exemplares
Le opere: Poesia, prosa, teatro 3 exemplares
Vad är en klassiker? och andra essayer 3 exemplares
Om poesi : essayer 3 exemplares
Poetry by T.S. Eliot 3 exemplares
Ensaios 2 exemplares
La terra desolata. Frammento di un agone. Marcia trionfale = The waste land. Fragment of an agon. Triumphal march 2 exemplares
The Waste Land and Other Poems 2 exemplares
1971 COMPLETE POEMS & PLAYS OF T.S. ELIOT CATS WASTELAND COCKTAIL PARTY WITH DJ [Hardcover] T.S. ELIOT 2 exemplares
The cantos of Ezra Pound : some testimonies 2 exemplares
The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot 2 exemplares
Poesías completas. Volumen I: Poesía, 1909-1962 (Visor de Poesía Maior) (Spanish Edition) (2017) 2 exemplares
Teatro 2 exemplares
Religious drama: mediaeval and modern 2 exemplares
Ausgewählte Gedichte [engl.-dt.] 2 exemplares
Thoughts after Lambeth 2 exemplares
Antologia Poética 2 exemplares
Edebiyat üzerine düşünceler 2 exemplares
Il sermone del fuoco 2 exemplares
Poetry by T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the Waste Land, Four Quartetes, the Love Song of J. Alfred… (2010) 2 exemplares
Poésie. Premiers poèmes. La Terre vaine, Les Hommes creux. Mercredi des cendres. Poèmes d'Ariel. Quatre quatuors.… 2 exemplares
Three modern poets : selections from Gerard Manly Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot 2 exemplares
T. S. Eliot (Arco Literary Critiques) 2 exemplares
Ausgewählte Essays 1917-1947 2 exemplares
"Ulysses, Order, and Myth" 2 exemplares
Essays I und II. 2 Bde. 2 exemplares
Essays 2 (Literaturkritik) [= T.S. Eliot, Werke II; zugleich: suhrkamp taschenbuch (st), Band 1562] 2 exemplares
The Early Classics of T.S. Eliot 1 exemplar
Old Possum's book of practical cats: Calendar for 1991, with excerpts from the poems (1990) 1 exemplar
Det öde landet 1 exemplar
The Four Quartets 1 exemplar
L'idea di una società cristiana 1 exemplar
Ensaios escolhidos 1 exemplar
A essência da poesia 1 exemplar
Appunti per una definizione della cultura 1 exemplar
Essays Ancient & Modern. 1 exemplar
Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral (Spanish Edition) (2016) 1 exemplar
T.S. Eliot Τα Ποιήματα 1909 - 1962 1 exemplar
"Mr Eliot's Sunday Morning Service" 1 exemplar
O tempo (ir)redimível 1 exemplar
The Sacred Wood (Mint Editions (Nonfiction Narratives: Essays, Speeches and Full-Length Work)) 1 exemplar
Ther Elder Statesman 1 exemplar
“East Coker” 1 exemplar
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” 1 exemplar
Dryden: A Collection of Critical Essays 1 exemplar
Preludes (2nd edition) 1 exemplar
“La Figlia Che Piange” 1 exemplar
Tre Poesie Di T.S. Eliot. 1 exemplar
The Use Of Poetry And The Use Of Criticism 1 exemplar
La terra desolata 1 exemplar
Rare Antique Film Murder In The Cathedral T.S. Eliot Play 1st Edition First Print Nobel Prize 1 exemplar
The Family Reunion a Play 1 exemplar
Poemas 1 exemplar
A note on the verse of John Milton 1 exemplar
La terra desolata - Quattro quadretti 1 exemplar
The waste land and other poems 1 exemplar
Water 1 exemplar
tin house 1 exemplar
Whispers of Immortality [poem] 1 exemplar
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and Other Poems 1 exemplar
T S Eliot Collected Plays 1 exemplar
A Terra Desolada 1 exemplar
ELIOTER KABITA 1 exemplar
Eliot Thomas Stearns 1 exemplar
The 100 Greatest Books of All Time 1 exemplar
Poezi të zgjedhura 1 exemplar
Pesmi 1 exemplar
Válogatott versek 1 exemplar
The Hippopotamus [poem] 1 exemplar
T.S Eliot the Complete Works 1 exemplar
The Criterion. A quarterly review. [Edited by T. S. Eliot.] vol. 1-3. no. 1-12. Oct. 1922-July 1925 1 exemplar
Religione e letteratura 1 exemplar
Gerontion [poem] 1 exemplar
Portrait of a Lady [poem] 1 exemplar
La Tierra Baldía. Y Prufrock Y Otras Observaciones (LUMEN) de T.S. ELIOT (15 ene 2015) Tapa dura 1 exemplar
Criticar al crítico y otros escritos 1 exemplar
Examen crítico de T.S. Eliot "Tierra baldía" 1 exemplar
SOBRE LA POESIA Y LOS POETAS 1 exemplar
CATS....Broadway Musical Production (Cats Program Book...1981 , The Cast of Cats...1981 , Cats Playbill... Forrest… (1981) 1 exemplar
Crime na catedral ; Quatro quartetos 1 exemplar
Stücke 1 exemplar
Poesia de T S ELIOT - TEXTO INTEGRAL 1 exemplar
Pensees 1 exemplar
The Complete Poems And Essays 1 exemplar
Izabrane pesme 1 exemplar
Opere... Poesie 1 exemplar
T.S. Eliot collection 1 exemplar
T.S. Eliot: Best 3 Poems (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, and The Waste Land) (2012) 1 exemplar
The Criterion 1 exemplar
T. S. Eliot - Poems 1 exemplar
Charles Whibely : a memoir 1 exemplar
The Criterion : quarterly review 1 exemplar
T. S. Eliot special issue : including "Scylla and Charybdis", a hitherto unpublished lecture 1 exemplar
Words for music 1 exemplar
Two poems 1 exemplar
Retrato de una dama y otros poemas 1 exemplar
Dikter i urval 1 exemplar
Sweeney Among the Nightingales [poem] 1 exemplar
Growlers Last Stand 1 exemplar
Macskák könyve 1 exemplar
The Naming of Cats [poem] 1 exemplar
T.S. Eliot, Tétralogie (Quatre Quatuors) 1 exemplar
The Coctail Party 1 exemplar
The Hollow Man 1 exemplar
Great Poets of the 20th Century: T.S. Eliot 1 exemplar
A group of four titles. 1 exemplar
The complete prose of T.S. Eliot. Volume 3, Literature, politics, belief, 1927-1929 (2014) 1 exemplar
Memoir 1 exemplar
Verse of John Milton 1 exemplar
Two Poems of Early Youth 1 exemplar
Waste Land, The (abridged) 1 exemplar
The Rock 1 exemplar
Hamlet and His Problems 1 exemplar
Poemas 1910-1930 1 exemplar
A essência da poesia 1 exemplar
The undergraduate poems of T. S. Eliot : published while he was at college in The Harvard Advocate 1 exemplar
Çorak Ülke - Cevap Çapan 1 exemplar
Denemeler 1 exemplar
The Letters of T.S. Elliot 1 exemplar
Was ist ein Klassiker? 1 exemplar
Les Hommes creux 1 exemplar
Der Vers. 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1884) — Contribuidor — 1,432 exemplares
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contribuidor — 1,042 exemplares
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 915 exemplares
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind (Routledge Classics) (1949) — Introdução, algumas edições — 671 exemplares
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contribuidor — 447 exemplares
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contribuidor — 436 exemplares
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1977) — Contribuidor — 294 exemplares
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contribuidor — 249 exemplares
The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy (1930) — Introdução, algumas edições — 236 exemplares
A Choice of Kipling's Verse made by T. S. Eliot with an essay on Rudyard Kipling (1941) — Editor — 231 exemplares
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years (1958) — Introdução, algumas edições; Prefácio — 196 exemplares
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 172 exemplares
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuidor — 148 exemplares
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contribuidor — 146 exemplares
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
The Shock of Recognition: The Development of Literature in the United States Recorded by the Men Who Made It (1943) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 108 exemplares
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contribuidor — 99 exemplares
Permanent Things: Toward the Recovery of a More Human Scale at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1979) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Nine Great Plays: From Aeschylus to Eliot (Revised Edition) (1950) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
The question of Henry James: a collection of critical essays (1945) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 18 exemplares
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Seneca: His Tenne Tragedies Translated into English. Edited by Thomas Newton, introduction by T. S. Eliot. (1966) — Introdução, algumas edições — 9 exemplares
Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection: Cats / Jesus Christ Superstar / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat / The… (2004) — algumas edições — 7 exemplares
American poets, an anthology of contemporary verse — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Oskar Kokoschka, Städteportraits : Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit der Oskar… (1986) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Poems Of Tennyson With An Introduction By T.S. Eliot (1938) — Introdução, algumas edições — 4 exemplares
Wege zu Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro). Drei Jahrzehnte Begegnungen in Dichtung u. Wissenschaft (1976) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1): Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy (2020) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
William Shakespeare: Coriolanus [theatre programme] — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns
- Outros nomes
- Eliot, Tom
Old Possum
Conybeare, Charles Augustus
Grimble, Reverend Charles James
Schwartz, Muriel A.
Spence, J. A. D. (mostrar todos 8)
Trundlett, Helen B.
Krutzch, Gus - Data de nascimento
- 1888-09-26
- Data de falecimento
- 1965-01-04
- Localização do túmulo
- St. Michael's Church, East Coker, Somerset, England, UK
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA (birth)
UK (naturalized) - Local de nascimento
- St. Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
- Local de falecimento
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- Emphysema
- Locais de residência
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France
London, England, UK - Educação
- Harvard University (BA ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1909)
Harvard University (MA ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1910)
Sorbonne, Paris, France
University of Oxford (Merton College) - Ocupações
- poet
literary critic
playwright
publisher
editor
banker (mostrar todos 8)
professor
essayist / reviewer - Relações
- Eliot, Valerie née Fletcher (second wife)
Eliot, William Greenleaf (grandfather)
Eliot, Charlotte (mother)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Aiken, Conrad (friend)
Russell, Bertrand (friend) (mostrar todos 21)
Yeats, William Butler (friend)
Lewis, Wyndham (friend)
Joyce, James (friend)
Valery, Paul (friend)
Moore, Marianne (friend)
Hayward, John Davy (friend)
Read, Herbert (friend)
Sencourt, Robert (friend)
Trevelyan, Mary (friend)
Zabel, Morton Dauwen (friend)
Betjeman, John (student)
Santayana, George (teacher)
Babbitt, Irving (teacher)
Bergson, Henri (teacher)
Vivienne Eliot née Haigh-Wood - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (honorary member)
Lloyds Bank (clerk)
The Criterion (founder and editor)
The Egoist (assistant editor)
Poetry magazine (contributor)
Faber and Faber (literary editor) (mostrar todos 26)
Society of King Charles the Martyr
Wesleyan University Press
Classical Association (president)
Virgil Society (president)
Books Across the Sea (president)
Accademia dei Lincei (foreign member)
Bayerische Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste (foreign member)
Athenaeum
Garrick Club
Oxford and Cambridge Club
London Library (president)
High Wycombe Grammar School, London (teacher)
Highgate School, London (teacher)
Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry)
Harvard University (Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecturer)
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (resident)
University of Virginia (Page-Barbour Lecturer)
University of Chicago (lecturer)
Library of Congress (lecturer)
Trinity College, Cambridge (Clark Lecturer) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Premi Nobel de Literatura, 1948
Membros
Discussions
Folio Society -- The Waste Land LE -- Review em Fine Press Forum (Janeiro 17)
LE: The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot em Folio Society Devotees (Janeiro 15)
Who is your favorite poet? em Young Fogey's Fire Place (Abril 2023)
Jeremy Irons reads 'The Naming of Cats' em Cats, books, life is good. (Janeiro 2016)
Críticas
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Overdue Podcast (1)
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Cats in Fiction (1)
Favourite Poems (1)
1940s (1)
Art of Reading (1)
Books I Loved (1)
2005-2010 (1)
1930s (2)
Tom's Bookstore (6)
Poetry Corner (6)
Modernism (9)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 427
- Also by
- 127
- Membros
- 42,093
- Popularidade
- #410
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 415
- ISBN
- 887
- Línguas
- 27
- Marcado como favorito
- 275
I was so impossibly charmed by the first poem, "The Naming of Cats!" Especially the lines:
Listen. Ineffable has been one of my top ten favorite words ever since reading Good Omens back in my college days. But effanineffable!
After that poem, the rest were cute enough. I can see how they were designed to charm children, but the passage of time and dislocation of place has soften the corners of some of the particulars. Especially some of the tired Asian stereotypes.
But the illustrations by Edward Gorey won me back over any time my interest started to dim.… (mais)