On poetry and poets
By: T.S. Eliot.
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780374531973
Subjects: Poetry -- History and criticism; Poetry
Description: T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as “The Three Voices of Poetry,” “Poetry and Drama,” and “What Is Minor Poetry?” as well as the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats. As he writes in “The Music of Poetry,” “We must expect a time to come when poetry will have again to be recalled to speech. The same problems arise, and always in new forms; and poetry has always before it . . . an ‘endless adventure.’”
Table of contents: title: On poetry; title: The social function of poetry [1945]; title: The music of poetry [1942]; title: What is minor poetry? [1944]; title: What is a classic? [1944]; title: Poetry and drama [1951]; title: The three voices of poetry [1953]; title: The frontiers of criticism [1956]; title: On poets; title: Virgil and the Christian world [1951]; title: Sir John Davies [1926]; title: Milton I [1936]; title: Milton II [1947]; title: Johnson as critic and poet [1944]; title: Byron [1937]; title: Goethe as the sage [1955]; title: Rudyard Kipling [1941]; title: Yeats [1940]