Research Guides: ENGL 4350: Radicalism and British Modernism: Eliot

A Genealogy of Modernism
Call Number: PR 478.M6 L4 1984
"Aesthetic development of modernism; much attention to Eliot; good chapter on The Waste Land." RRB
A Geneology of Modernism is a study of literary transition in the first two decades of the twentieth-century, a period of extraordinary ferment and great accomplishment, during which the avant-garde gradually consolidated a secure place within English culture. Michael Levenson analyses that complex process by following the successive phases of a literary movement - Impressionist, Imagist, Vorticist, Classicist - as it attempted to formulate the principles on which a new aesthetic might be founded. The emphasis here falls on the ideology of modernism, but throughout the book the ideological question is tied on the one hand to specific literary works and on the other to general movements in philosophy and the fine arts.
Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context
Call Number: PS 3509.L43 Z7854 1986
"Study of early Eliot in relation to avant-garde poetics of the 1910s." RRB
Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity, and his later repudiation of those views, reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. It will prove an eye-opening study for readers with an interest in the writings of T.S. Eliot and other luminaries of the Modernist era.
The Waste Land
Call Number: PS 3509.L43 W3 1971
Each facsimile page of the original manuscript is accompanied here by a typeset transcript on the facing page. This book shows how the original, which was much longer than the first published version, was edited through handwritten notes by Ezra Pound, by Eliot's first wife, and by Eliot himself.

RRB = Professor Richard R. Bozorth

Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot
Drawing on the latest developments in scholarship and criticism, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot opens up fresh avenues of appreciation and inquiry to a global twenty-first century readership. Emphasizing major works and critical issues, this collection of newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars provides seven full chapters reassessing Eliot's poetry and drama; explores important contemporary critical issues that were previously untreated, such as the significance of gender and sexuality; and challenges received accounts of his at times controversial critical reception. Complete with a chronology of Eliot's life and work and an up-to-date select bibliography, this authoritative and accessible introduction to Eliot's complete oeuvre will be an essential resource for students.

T. S. Eliot waste land
Read by noted actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land powerfully expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the post-World War I era in Europe. In this program, Professor Frank Kermode, of Cambridge University; Eliot biographer Peter Ackroyd; and poets Sir Stephen Spender and Craig Raine examine the complex nature of Eliot's influential poem, analyze its appeal, and trace the reasons why it became one of the best-known emblems of the 20th century.
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T.S. Eliot and Beethoven's Music (2:25) -- Eliot's Family and Early Poetry (2:56) -- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (2:10) -- Dramatic Monologues in Eliot's Poetry (3:17) -- Eliot's Thematic Style and Technique (2:40) -- The Vorticism Movement (3:43) -- Vorticism and "The Waste Land" (2:42) -- Fragmented Voice (6:26) -- Vernacular Language and Voice (3:11) -- Eliot's Personal Tribulations (4:22) -- Decadence in "The Waste Land" (4:39) -- Editing of "The Waste Land" (5:21) -- Scholarly Notes in "The Waste Land" (3:54) -- Eliot's Drama and Later Achievements (4:24) -- Eliot's Character and Literary Culture (0:55) -- Central Despair in "The Waste Land" (4:07)