Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism

by Jewel Spears Brooker

These expert studies in some of the key figures behind Eliot's modernism - Mallarme, Frazer, F.H. Bradley, and T.E. Hulme - yield fresh insights which are brought to bear most fruitfully on his major poems Gerontion, The Waste Land and Four Quartets.

Genres: Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

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[c · Rating 3 out of 5]

All of these essays are interesting in their own right, but they tend to overlap a lot. Best read spread out and/or as-needed.