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T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)

Autore di Il libro dei gatti tuttofare

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T. S. Eliot is considered by many to be a literary genius and one of the most influential men of letters during the half-century after World War I. He was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. Eliot attended Harvard University, with time abroad pursuing graduate studies at the mostra altro Sorbonne, Marburg, and Oxford. The outbreak of World War I prevented his return to the United States, and, persuaded by Ezra Pound to remain in England, he decided to settle there permanently. He published his influential early criticism, much of it written as occasional pieces for literary periodicals. He developed such doctrines as the "dissociation of sensibility" and the "objective correlative" and elaborated his views on wit and on the relation of tradition to the individual talent. Eliot by this time had left his early, derivative verse far behind and had begun to publish avant-garde poetry (including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which exploited fresh rhythms, abrupt juxtapositions, contemporary subject matter, and witty allusion. This period of creativity also resulted in another collection of verse (including "Gerontian") and culminated in The Waste Land, a masterpiece published in 1922 and produced partly during a period of psychological breakdown while married to his wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. In 1922, Eliot became a director of the Faber & Faber publishing house, and in 1927 he became a British citizen and joined the Church of England. Thereafter, his career underwent a change. With the publication of Ash Wednesday in 1930, his poetry became more overtly Christian. As editor of the influential literary magazine The Criterion, he turned his hand to social as well as literary criticism, with an increasingly conservative orientation. His religious poetry culminated in Four Quartets, published individually from 1936 onward and collectively in 1943. This work is often considered to be his greatest poetic achievement. Eliot also wrote poetry in a much lighter vein, such as Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), a collection that was used during the early 1980s as the basis for the musical, Cats. In addition to his contributions in poetry and criticism, Eliot is the pivotal verse dramatist of this century. He followed the lead of William Butler Yeats in attempting to revive metrical language in the theater. But, unlike Yeats, Eliot wanted a dramatic verse that would be self-effacing, capable of expressing the most prosaic passages in a play, and an insistent, undetected presence capable of elevating itself at a moment's notice. His progression from the pageant The Rock (1934) and Murder in the Cathedral (1935), written for the Canterbury Festival, through The Family Reunion (1939) and The Cocktail Party (1949), a West End hit, was thus a matter of neutralizing obvious poetic effects and bringing prose passages into the flow of verse. Recent critics have seen Eliot as a divided figure, covertly attracted to the very elements (romanticism, personality, heresy) he overtly condemned. His early attacks on romantic poets, for example, often reveal him as a romantic against the grain. The same divisions carry over into his verse, where violence struggles against restraint, emotion against order, and imagination against ironic detachment. This Eliot is more human and more attractive to contemporary taste. During his lifetime, Eliot received many honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Barry Hyams, Library of Congress

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Opere di T. S. Eliot

Il libro dei gatti tuttofare (1939) 6,536 copie
The Waste Land and Other Poems (1922) — Autore — 4,476 copie
Quattro quartetti (1943) 3,217 copie
Assassinio nella cattedrale (1935) 3,024 copie
Collected Poems, 1909–1962 (1963) 2,981 copie
Selected Poems (1954) 2,864 copie
The Complete Poems and Plays (1952) 1,048 copie
The Cocktail Party (1950) 853 copie
Christianity and Culture (1939) 573 copie
Selected Essays (1932) 385 copie
On Poetry and Poets (1957) 360 copie
The Family Reunion (1939) 298 copie
Poesie (1976) 231 copie
The Confidential Clerk (1954) 208 copie
Il grande statista (1657) 99 copie
Collected Plays (1962) 65 copie
Pascal's Pensees (1958) 59 copie
Poems 1909-1925 (1928) 50 copie
Ash Wednesday (1930) 43 copie
The Hollow Men (2000) 42 copie
For Lancelot Andrewes (1929) 34 copie
The Dry Salvages (1941) 33 copie
Little Gidding (1942) 33 copie
Poems (1920) 31 copie
Dante (1929) 31 copie
Essays Ancient and Modern (1936) 30 copie
Burnt Norton (1941) 29 copie
What is a classic? (1945) 28 copie
Poetry and Drama (1951) 27 copie
Elizabethan Dramatists (1943) 26 copie
East Coker (1940) 24 copie
The Rock: A Pageant Play (1934) 21 copie
Dikter i svensk tolkning (1987) 19 copie
Elizabethan essays (1934) 16 copie
Die Dramen (1974) 15 copie
Cori Da La Rocca (1994) 15 copie
Journey of the Magi (1927) 15 copie
George Herbert (1968) 15 copie
Eeldrop and Appleplex (1992) 15 copie
Opere: 1904-1939 (1992) 14 copie
TEATRE (1992) 14 copie
Preludes 14 copie
Gedichten (1983) 12 copie
La terra eixorca (1977) 11 copie
Points of View (1705) 11 copie
Macavity's Not There! (2016) 10 copie
Milton (1948) 10 copie
The Essential T.S. Eliot (2020) 9 copie
Gedichten 1917-1930 (2019) 7 copie
Later Poems 1925 - 1935 (1941) 7 copie
Essais choisis (1999) 7 copie
Opere (1939-1962) (1993) 7 copie
La sorella velata (2000) 6 copie
Trettiotalspoetik (1983) 6 copie
Valitud esseesid (1997) 6 copie
Opere (1993) 6 copie
Vier kwartetten (2022) 5 copie
Animula (1929) 5 copie
Select Poems (2018) 5 copie
Marina (1930) 5 copie
Valik esseid 4 copie
Dikter (1948) 3 copie
T. S. Eliot versei (1978) 3 copie
Selected Poems (1963) 3 copie
Om kritik (2002) 3 copie
The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2009) 3 copie
Poesia completa (2021) 2 copie
Ensaios 2 copie
Teatro 2 copie
Corak Ülke (2022) 2 copie
The Second-Order Mind (1996) 2 copie
Ensaios Escolhidos (2000) 2 copie
TheWaste Land — Autore — 2 copie
Poems (Large Print) (2007) 2 copie
Poems: The Waste Land und weitere Gedichte (2013) — Autore; Narratore — 2 copie
Ara vus prec (2010) 2 copie
Essays, in 2 Bdn. (1996) 1 copia
The Naming of Cats (2021) 1 copia
Kootut runot (2022) 1 copia
tin house 1 copia
Elveszett költemények (1997) 1 copia
Tutto il teatro (1994) 1 copia
Water 1 copia
Poemas 1 copia
Pesmi 1 copia
Voices and Visions (1996) 1 copia
Le opere (1978) 1 copia
Two poems 1 copia
Pensees 1 copia
The Definitive Poems (2013) 1 copia
Gala Day London (1953) 1 copia
Selected Works (2008) 1 copia
Песни (2003) 1 copia
Poemes 1925-1930 (2014) 1 copia
Poesia (2000) 1 copia
The Criterion 1 copia
Wybór poezji (1988) 1 copia
The Design Of His Poetry (1950) 1 copia
Denemeler 1 copia
Scritti su Dante (1994) 1 copia
Memoir 1 copia
Der Vers. 1 copia
Stücke 1 copia
Su hombre de confianza. (1959) 1 copia
The Rock 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Stearns Eliot, Thomas
Altri nomi
Eliot, Tom
Old Possum
Conybeare, Charles Augustus
Grimble, Reverend Charles James
Schwartz, Muriel A.
Spence, J. A. D. (mostra tutto 8)
Trundlett, Helen B.
Krutzch, Gus
Data di nascita
1888-09-26
Data di morte
1965-01-04
Luogo di sepoltura
Chiesa di San Michele a East Coker, Somerset, inghilterra
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA, Missouri
Europa, Gran Bretagna dal 1927
Luogo di nascita
Saint Louis, Missouri, USa
Luogo di morte
Londra, Inghilterra
Causa della morte
Emphysema
Luogo di residenza
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France
London, England, UK
Istruzione
Harvard University, Mass. (Laurea in Filosofia)
Sorbona, Parigi
Merton College un iversità di Oxford
Attività lavorative
Impiegato presso la Lloyd's Bank
Direttore casa editrice Faber and Gwyer
Insegnante e docente
Poeta, drammaturgo e critico letterario
Relazioni
Ware, Henry (padre)
Stearns Eliot, Charlotte (madre)
Haigh Wood, Vivien (moglie)
Fletcher, Valerie (moglie)
Organizzazioni
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (honorary member)
Lloyds Bank (clerk)
The Criterion (founder and editor)
The Egoist (assistant editor)
Poetry magazine (contributor)
Faber and Faber (literary editor) (mostra tutto 26)
Society of King Charles the Martyr
Wesleyan University Press
Classical Association (president)
Virgil Society (president)
Books Across the Sea (president)
Accademia dei Lincei (foreign member)
Bayerische Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste (foreign member)
Athenaeum
Garrick Club
Oxford and Cambridge Club
London Library (president)
High Wycombe Grammar School, London (teacher)
Highgate School, London (teacher)
Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry)
Harvard University (Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecturer)
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (resident)
University of Virginia (Page-Barbour Lecturer)
University of Chicago (lecturer)
Library of Congress (lecturer)
Trinity College, Cambridge (Clark Lecturer)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Nobel per la Letteratura (1948)
Medaglia Presidenziale della Libertà dal Presidente Lyndon B. Johnson (1964)

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Opere
415
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Utenti
41,392
Popolarità
#421
Voto
4.0
Recensioni
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ISBN
884
Lingue
26
Preferito da
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A proposito di
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Citazioni
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