托·斯·艾略特(1888—1965)是二十世紀英美文學*重要的詩人之一,同時也是一個有極大影響的文學批評家,是英美新批評派的開山鼻祖。他對于傳統(tǒng)的新闡釋具有劃時代的意義;他提出的“非個性化”理論和尋找“客觀對應物”的創(chuàng)作手法對現(xiàn)代西方文學批評和詩歌創(chuàng)作產(chǎn)生了巨大的影響。他的詩和一套文論引發(fā)了人們轟轟烈烈的討論與研究,至今余波未息。 本書是“劍橋文學名家研習系列”之一,書中對托·斯·艾略特的生平作了簡要的闡述。
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Life
Early life, 1888-1914
A bohemian life, 1915-1922
Man of letters, 1923-1945
The sage, 1945-1965
Chapter 2 Contexts
Early influences
France
England
Religion
Philosophy
Culture and society
Romanticism and classicism
A sense of the past
Chapter 3 Works
Early poems
"Portrait of a Lady"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"The Hollow Men"
"Gerontion"
Poems 1920
The Waste Land
The Ariel poems and Ash-Wednesday
Plays
Cultural criticism
Four Quartets
Reevaluation
Chapter 4 Critical reception
Notes
The works of T. S. Eliot
Further reading
Index