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050 00 $aPS3509.L43$bZ8683 1996
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100 1 $aSmith, Grover,$d1923-2014.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50013423
245 10 $aT. S. Eliot and the use of memory /$cGrover Smith.
260 $aLewisburg :$bBucknell University Press ;$aLondon :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $a186 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-178) and index.
520 $aThis book explores poetry of T. S. Eliot and three plays, Sweeney Agonistes, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party, in the light of his responses to his cultural tradition.
520 8 $aThe concept of memory, as an acknowledgment both of a cultural heritage and of its availability for original works of mind and imagination, unifies this study by Grover Smith. Eliot was tradition-oriented, drawing upon various cultures - primitive, Indic, European, and American - for poetic inspiration and models. By education, he was multicultural in a thoroughly legitimate sense.
520 8 $aIn separate chapters, Smith, though commenting on a few verbal sources of types familiar from Eliot's practice of stylistic borrowing, focuses on thematic concerns.
520 8 $aIncluded are the psychological labyrinth of death-in-life of Poe's tales and poems; transfigurations of Hamlet from Shakespeare to Goethe, Coleridge, and Freud; popular stage entertainment in nineteenth-century America; poetic stimuli from James Barrie, Arnold Bennett, and Aldous Huxley; twentieth-century speculations on time and serialism; the world of occult phenomena in W. B. Yeats and, later, the novelist Charles Williams; and Eliot's obsessive critiques of primitive myth and ritual.
520 8 $a. In various ways, all of these interests intersected. Smith shows in Eliot's dedication to diverse traditions a practical imperative, and to a great extent a moral one, for a poetic art grounded in traditional American reverence for inherited values.
600 10 $aEliot, T. S.$q(Thomas Stearns),$d1888-1965$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aEliot, T. S.$q(Thomas Stearns),$d1888-1965$xKnowledge and learning.
650 0 $aLiterature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077507
650 0 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85066122
650 0 $aMemory in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083503
650 0 $aIntertextuality.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005212
852 00 $bglx$hPS3509.L43$iZ8683 1996