The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism

by T. S. Eliot

Overview

" 'I am a poet, ' he said, and one, I hope, of no mean imagination, if one can reckon at all by crowns of honour, which gratitude can set even on unworthy heads. 'Why are you so badly dressed, then?' you ask. For that very reason. The worship of genius never made a man rich." -Petronius, Satyricon (54 AD)

The Sacred Wood-Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) is T. S. Eliot's first book of criticism. It contains opinions of writers such as Shakespeare and Dante and some of Eliot's most influential essays, including Tradition and the Individual Talent and Philip Massinger.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646792955
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	11/18/2020
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965), banker, lecturer, poet, playwright, and editor, a graduate of Harvard, a student at the Sorbonne and at Oxford, was considered one of the 20th century's major poets. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved to England in 1914, where he became a British citizen in 1927.