T. S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks

T. S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks

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This is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice.

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T. S. Eliot and Prejudice by Christopher Ricks

Eliot's poetry has been charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism, prissiness. It is a poetry which invites or incites prejudice; how far this makes Eliot suspect is what Ricks sets out to discover.
Christopher Ricks is Co-Director, with Archie Burnett, of the Editorial Institute at Boston University. His publications on Eliot include T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 (1996), and Decisions and Revisions in T. S. Eliot (the Panizzi Lectures, 2002), together with True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (2007). The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2 vols., 2015) is edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue.
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ISBN 13 9780571170357
ISBN 10 0571170358
Title T. S. Eliot and Prejudice
Author Christopher Ricks
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 1994-01-24
Number of pages 304
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