Conflicts in Consciousness: T. S. ELIOT'S POETRY AND CRITICISM - Hardcover

Spurr, David

9780252010262: Conflicts in Consciousness: T. S. ELIOT'S POETRY AND CRITICISM

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252010264 ISBN 13: 9780252010262

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1983

From the inner sleeve of "Conflicts in Consciousness" - "Conflicts in Consciousness" challenges the tradition that views Eliot's work as elements of a supremely ordered and unified imagination. Spurr, to the contrary, argues that Eliot's major poems and critical essays reflect an essentially unresolved war between the poet's intellect and intuition. Spurr's primary achievement is to redefine Eliot's poetic evolution as a series of attempts to conquer, discredit or assimilate the irrational forces of his visionary imagination. He traces this obsession through Eliot's major works: "Gerontion," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land," "The Hollow Men," "Ash Wednesday," "Four Quartets," and the essays.

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