The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot

by Robert Crawford

Overview

Primitive and metropolitan life nourished T. S. Eliot's imagination and emerged as recurrent themes in his work. Examining these twin concerns, Robert Crawford sheds new light on the poet's achievement—particularly those works that culminated in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes—and clarifies Eliot's relentless obsession with "savages" and sophisticates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198122517
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/17/1991
Series:	Oxford English Monographs
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Figures	x
	Abbreviations	xi
	Introduction	1
I.	The Beginning of the Wild West	5
II.	City	35
III.	Savage	61
IV.	Waiting for Rain	103
V.	That's All, That's All, That's All, That's All	150
VI.	The Savage and the City in the Later Work	191
	Bibliography	239
	Index	245

Editorial Reviews

"Well written and coherent...It will be of use to a variety of potential readers from undergraduates through faculty. There really is nothing else comparable to it in terms of its subject matter....Recommended for all academic libraries."—Choice

"A powerful and stimulating book."—Times Higher Education Supplement

"Crawford has much to offer...[he] has discovered extraordinary things...[and] is a gifted young scholar."—Ronald Bush, Modern Philology

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