Aethereal rumours : T.S. Eliot's physics and poetics

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Aethereal rumours : T.S. Eliot's physics and poetics

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T.S. Eliot's physics and poetics

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Benjamin G. Lockerd, Jr

Language

eng

Summary

"This study combines ideas from many different disciplines and historical periods to yield a broad and penetrating analysis of T.S. Eliot's thinking about the relation between the material and spiritual worlds. Lockerd demonstrates that Eliot developed a poetic theory based on his antidualistic belief that mind and matter are not entirely separate, a theory that emphasizes natural symbols such as the elements and the seasonsnonarbitrary symbols rooted in our physical experience. The book thus offers a forceful response to those who would see Eliot as a precursor of so-called postmodern literary theory. Instead, Lockerd finds in Eliot's poetic theory and practice an attempt to achieve what is called in Four Quartets the "impossible union / Of spheres of existence.""--Jacket

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DLC

Dewey number

821/.912

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index present

LC call number

PS3509.L43

LC item number

Z6933 1998

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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