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S'està carregant… The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetryde T. S. Eliot
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. In all fairness, the lectures reproduced here were never prepared for publication by Eliot. One finds in them Eliot's sometimes infuriating mix of erudition, acuity, prejudice and pet theories. His central idea is to explore what he sees as metaphysicality, not only where one would expect it in Donne and company, but also in Dante and the nineteenth century French (minor) poet Laforgue. The chapters on the English metaphysical school are the best, those on Dante interesting, but not, for me, convincingly tied to the larger subject. The chapters on the French are slightly pointless. Two sets of lectures are reproduced here, those given in 1926 at Cambridge, and a shorter series given in 1933 at Johns Hopkins. The latter are essentially a pared down version of the former, and are more satisfying and focused, They have been given the full scholarly treatment here, with elaborate notes and a full textual apparatus. The very full notes are extremely helpful in clarifying obscure allusions, translating the (many) quotations in several foreign languages, and correcting Eliot's (many) errors of fact and transcription. While the notes interrupt the flow of the lectures, to many of us the text would be terribly obscure without them. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
The famed series of Trinity College and Johns Hopkins lectures in which the Nobel Prize winner explored history, poetry, and philosophy. While a student at Harvard in the early years of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets led Eliot, as a poet and critic living in London, to formulate an original theory of the poetry generally termed "metaphysical"--philosophical and intellectual poetry that revels in startlingly unconventional imagery. Eliot came to perceive a gradual "disintegration of the intellect" following three "metaphysical moments" of European civilization--the thirteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth centuries. The theory is at once a provocative prism through which to view Western intellectual and literary history and an exceptional insight into Eliot's own intellectual development. This annotated edition includes the eight Clark Lectures on metaphysical poetry that Eliot delivered at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1926, and their revision and extension for his three Turnbull Lectures at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1933. They reveal in great depth the historical currents of poetry and philosophy that shaped Eliot's own metaphysical moment in the twentieth century. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)821.309Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry 1558-1625 Elizabethan period By topic HistoryLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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