The Modernist Human: The Configuration of Humanness in Stephane Mallarme's Herodiade, T. S. Eliot's Cats, and Modernist Lyrical Poetry (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)
some of the murk befouling the poet's reputation. The years 1923-25 were torture for [T.S.] Eliot. He was chronically hard up. His first wife Vivienne was an invalid, often mad with pain, and criminally mistreated by her expensive doctors. He held a senior position at Lloyds bank. When a patron, Lady Rothermere, helped him set up his own, "ultra-Tory" literary quarterly, The Criterion, Eliot...
Murder in the Cathedral Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Eliot, T.S. Murder in the Cathedral It's been years since I read this -- I bought it at the Fordham bookstore -- not sure for which class -- probably a class on drama. I must have bought it used, because there are extensive notes written in it by more than one person. On the inner flap, someone named Ed O'Connor has written a short essay...
Poet David Moolten The Hunterdon County Library welcomes award-winning poet David Moolten at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 22. Moolten is the winner of the 2009 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry sponsored by Truman State University Press, Kirksville, Mo. His winning poetry collection, "Primitive Mood," just published this fall, was selected from 500 manuscripts in the 13th annual competition. Moolten...
The Complete Poems and Plays Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Eliot, T.S. The Complete Poems and Plays Not sure where I bought this. Probably at the Fordham bookstore. I have had it since college, or soon thereafter. They still sell this extremely ugly hardcover . Not that I care, but you'd think they would have sexed up the dust jacket by now. This looks ike it is being marketed to British...
The shortlist for The T S Eliot Prize 2009:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun FishFred D'Aguiar : Continental ShelfJane Draycott : OverPhilip Gross : The Water TableSinéad Morrissey : Through the Square WindowSharon Olds : One Secret ThingAlice Oswald : Weeds & Wild FlowersChristopher Reid : A ScatteringGeorge Szirtes : The Burning of the Books and Other PoemsHugo Williams...
Novels: LIGHTBREAKER HEARTLAND website: http://www.markteppo.com/ Q: Pitch The first novel of your series. A: LIGHTBREAKER is a Dan Brown thriller written by Aleister Crowley, wherein everyone who is after the mystical secret key of the universe actually knows how to use it. And they're willing to break things in order to get it. It's the first book in a longer series, the CODEX OF SOULS. Q: What are...
While viewing the fine and appealing "Turner to Cezanne" exhibit today at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, I discovered that art historians are playing peek-a-boo with important works of art. Well, more than peek-a-boo. Scholars have peered at works via x-ray to determine what's under the paint. For example, the commentary on a Renoir with a woman wearing a blue dress ("La Parisienne")...
of insight from [T.S.] Eliot, too, though one of the most remarkable--a 1917 letter to the editor on the horror of trench warfare--largely quotes another letter by his soldier brother-in-law, Maurice Haigh-Wood. "Wounded men hanging in agony on the barbed wire, until a friendly spout of liquid fire shrivels them up like a fly on a candle" is also indicative of where the poet of The Waste...
I am thrilled to be one of 47 artists/writers -- including Michael Gushue, Dan Vera, and Kim Roberts -- participating in Prufrock: The Exhibit , organized by Barbara DeCesare and Mira Foote. Each participant was assigned lines from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and told to make art from their response to the lines. The exhibit will run November 16-28, 2009, at: YorkArts...
Fiona Shaw performs part of 'A Game of Chess' from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land . There is a 40 minute film version of the stage production of the poem, which featured Shaw as a solo performer. To the best of my knowledge the film is not available online, or for purchase. It was once screened on SBS. I taped it but later lent the tape to someone and never got it back. If anyone knows where I can get...
At Jezebel , Anna North considers a good question: is it time to stop the Top Book Lists, such as the recent Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2009? As has been noticed in such outlets as The New York Times , there is not a single female author on the list, raising questions about long-held critical biases against women's fiction. Of course, it's possible that the top books of the year were without...
I am halfway through the last book for my course, due in very soon, but when you visit the library during this crucial time, and discover one of the many books on your Must-Get-ASAP-After-The-Course-Ends list beckoning your attention from the ‘Hot Pick’ stand, right beside the loans desk - What do you do? Give it a dismissive wave, a wink, and waltz on past? I turned back the first few...
Relentless daily trivia, the shackles of conformity and the "clamour of the world" were, for Ted Hughes, foes of the creative spirit. And Hughes the writer is the focus of this magnificent collection, which captivatingly explores the relationship between the man and his art. Slating 20th-century English writing as "poison gas... numbing, smartening, trivialising, finally paralysing",...
“A Congealed Nebulosity” a review by Nigel Beale Reading Geoffrey Hill’s Collected Critical Writings feels a lot like what it might to step into a graduate seminar in 19th and 20th century poetry without having taken the prerequisite courses, or completed the required reading. It will not be immediately understood by “a common well-educated, thoughtful man of ordinary talents;”...
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