T. S. Eliot and Prejudice
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
T. S. Eliot and Prejudice
By (Author) Christopher Ricks
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
821.912
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 127mm, Height 200mm, Spine 24mm
239g
Description
Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how far this makes Eliot suspect is what Ricks sets out to discover.
Author Bio
Christopher Ricks is Co-Director, with Archie Burnett, of the Editorial Institute at Boston University. His publications on Eliot include T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 (1996), and Decisions and Revisions in T. S. Eliot (the Panizzi Lectures, 2002), together with True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (2007). The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2 vols., 2015) is edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue.
