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    Selected Essays, 1917–1932

    By T.S. Eliot

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    Literary criticism from the Nobel Prize winner on subjects from Dante to Dickens.

    Some one said: “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know.
     
    Celebrated poet and playwright T. S. Eliot was one of the twentieth century’s most influential literary critics. In Selected Essays, he compiled his most significant works of criticism and theory written between 1917 and 1932. Included here are what Eliot considered the best essays from The Sacred Wood; his essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists; Tradition and the Individual Talent; Dante; For Lancelot Andrewes; Homage to John Dryden; and many others.
     
    This expanded edition is annotated with footnotes and includes a biographical note about the author.
     
    “Mr. Eliot is a master of critical exposition.” —The New York Times
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 4, 2014
    ISBN9780547543796
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    T.S. Eliot

    THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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