Poetic craft and authorial design in Shakespeare, Keats, T.S. Eliot, and Henry James, with two essays on the Pygmalion legend
By: George T. Wright
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780773415232
Subjects: Poetics; Technique; English poetry; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Be stone no more": Pygmalion from Ovid to Shakespeare; title: Pygmalion and his statue: some later incarnations; title: The music of Eliot's poetry; title: Eliot written in a country churchyard: the elegy and four quartets; title: Keats and Eliot: speech from the inner life; title: Sustained stages and states: Eliot's peculiar personae; title: Teaching Eliot, 1960-1993; title: "Every poem an epitaph": Eliot's changing poetic styles; title: English prosody, 1780-1914: "I hear the metrical shuffling of their feet"; title: The Roman setting of Henry James's the portrait of a lady.