The Maverick Poets: An Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0961045426 ISBN 13: 9780961045425

Publisher: Gorilla Pr, 1988

Synopsis

THIS NORTON CRITICAL EDITION OF ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST IMPORTANT POEMS IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE EDITION AVAILABLE. TO ASSIST STUDENTS WITH ELIOT'S DEEPLY ALLUSIVE WORK, THE EDITOR, MICHAELF NORTH, PROVIDES DETAILED EXPLANATORY ANNOTATIONS AS WELL AS ELIOT'S OWN NOTES, SOME OF WHICH REQUIRE ANNOTATIONS THEMSELVES. THE TEXT INCLUDED IS THAT OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (BONI * LIVERIGHT) WITH ELIOT'S NOTES APPEARING AT THE END OF THE POEM. 'CONTEXTS' COLLECTS INVALUABLE MATERIALS ON THE WASTE LAND'S MANY SOURCES, ITS COMPOSITION, AND ITS PUBLICAITON HISTORY. INCLUDED ARE EXCERPTS FROM WORKS BY SIR JAMES G. FRAZER, J. L. WESTON, ALDOUS HUXLEY, CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, OVID GOTAMA BUDDHA, AND HERMAN HESSE, AMONG OTHERS, WHICH FIGURE PROMINENTLY IN THE POEM. SELECTIONS FROM ELIOT'S ESSAYS AND WORKS BY LYNDALL GORDON, HELEN GARDNER, AND LAWRENCE RAINEY ADDRESS THE POEM'S COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION. 'CRITICISM EXAMINES THE WASTE LAND'S RECEPTION, WITH TWENTY-FIVE REVIEWS AND ESSAYS, FROM FIRST REACTIONS THROUGH THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, AMONG THEM THE EARLY ASSESMENTS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, EDMUND WILSON, ELINOR WYLIE, MALCOLM COWLEY, AND RALPH ELLISON; THE NEW CRITICIM OF JOHN CROW RANSOM, F. R. LEAVIS, AND DELMORE SCHWARTA; AND THE RECENT READINGS OF DENID DONOGHUE, RONALD BUSH, MAUD ELLMANN, AND CHRISTINE FROULALA. A CHRONOLOGY AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ARE INCLUDED.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gorilla Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0961045426
• ISBN 13: 9780961045425
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Steve Kowit