Thirty-one essays-categorized as "essays in generalization," "appreciations of individual authors," and "social and religious criticism"- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliot's original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode; Index. Published jointly with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings, some of them dating back to before 1918. There are essays of generalisation, appreciations of individual writers, and a section of his social and religious criticism. All the famous and most influential ...(展开全部)

i. Auditory Imagination ii. The Music of Four Quartets iii. Poetic Communication iv. The Dry Season v. The Time of Tension vi. The Language of Drama vii. The Approach to the Meaning

【作者】 林德尔·戈登 Lyndall Gordon 1941年生于南非开普敦，美国哥伦比亚大学文学博士，以罗德学者身份前往牛津大学做，现为牛津大学圣希尔达学院资深研究员。 【译者】 许小凡，北京外国语大学英语学院讲师，英国诺丁汉大学英语文学博士。

【作者】 林德尔·戈登 Lyndall Gordon 1941年生于南非开普敦，美国哥伦比亚大学文学博士，以罗德学者身份前往牛津大学做，现为牛津大学圣希尔达学院资深研究员。 【译者】 许小凡，北京外国语大学英语学院讲师，英国诺丁汉大学英语文学博士。

【作者】 林德尔·戈登 Lyndall Gordon 1941年生于南非开普敦，美国哥伦比亚大学文学博士，以罗德学者身份前往牛津大学做，现为牛津大学圣希尔达学院资深研究员。 【译者】 许小凡，北京外国语大学英语学院讲师，英国诺丁汉大学英语文学博士。

T.S.Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last 20 years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. His brother has gone, his seems normal but might not be, and his dog-Verywell-is going mad. T.S. makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable c...(展开全部)

The definitive biography of the twentieth century’s great poet. T. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a whole school of literary criticism. Today, as long-awaited personal papers and letters emerge, there is a new impetus t...(展开全部)

Lyndall Gordon's biographical work on T. S. Eliot has won many dramatic accolades. In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" ( The New Yorker ), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" ( Boston Globe ). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in fu...(展开全部)