T.S. Eliot and Prejudice

Christopher B. Ricks

ISBN 10: 0520065786 / ISBN 13: 9780520065789

Published by Univ of California Pr, 1989

About this Item

First American edition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, DJ unclipped and in excellent condition, no indications of previous ownership. Pages are browning at the edges, presumably untreated paper but the text is not affected and it's only this flaw that prevents me from listing this volume as Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: T.S. Eliot and Prejudice
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520065786
• ISBN 13: 9780520065789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

This is an examination of T.S. Eliot's poetry in which the author considers the works against a background of the social and political problems of prejudice. Eliot was writing at a time of great contradiction in thought; never has the accusation of prejudice been stronger, and yet never has there been so wide an agreement that no understanding of anything is possible without preconceptions. Christopher Ricks is author of "Milton's Grand Style", "Tennyson", "Keats and Embarrassment" and "The Force of Poetry".

Reviews

Ricks has written not merely a fine study of T.S. Eliot but an interesting work of criticism that combines the best of New Criticism (a strict reading of texts and keen awareness of ambiguity) and of Deconstruction (a sensitivity to the way the text undercuts itself and deliberately frustrates simplistic "reader responses"). Ricks does an admirable job of explicating Eliot's "Prufrock," and in all his readings he gives fresh evidence of the highly complicated mind Eliot brought to bear on even the titles of his work. This is not another tired discussion of Eliot's racial prejudices (which Ricks nicely contrasts with those of Pound) but a profound inquiry into the nature of writing about prejudice, a kind of minefield where "even the demolition squad sows its own bombs." Recommended for all larger collections.
- Daniel L. Guillory, Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.
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