Skepticism and Modern Enmity: Before and After Eliot

by Jeffrey M. Perl

Great treatise onmodernism

256 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1989

Reviews

[Noah · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fascinating reading of Eliot for the late 20th century. Centered around Eliot's intellectual devotion to skepticism--even in the midst of his religious devotion--Perl's book pictures an almost postmodern Eliot. Perhaps more than Moody's tome, this book offers a way forward for Eliot Studies.

[Cypress Butane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this because of the lecture series by this author as a Professor for The Teaching Company, Literary Modernism. The lecture series was great, and this book overlapped some but was mostly new, mostly great, and very good material overall. Very dense writing, I spent five minutes staring at some pages re-reading sentences over and over. This probably isn't the best intro to T.S. Eliot, which is how I'm mainly using it, but the Eliot that this guy is writing about, the author certainly knows well.