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001 2014030394
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008 140730s2014 nyu b 000 e eng
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020 $a9781137485700 (Hardback)
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020 $z9781137479129 (PDF)
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050 00 $aPS3509.L43$bZ5997 2014
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084 $aLIT000000$aLIT004020$aLIT014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aAtkins, G. Douglas$q(George Douglas),$d1943-$eauthor.
245 10 $aT. S. Eliot's Christmas poems :$ban essay in writing-as-reading and other "impossible unions" /$cG. Douglas Atkins, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Kansas, USA.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 93 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aPalgrave Pivot
520 $a"Here G. Douglas Atkins presents T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as dramatizations of the meaning and significance of Christmas: Journey of the Magi, A Song for Simeon, Animula, Marina, Triumphal March, and The Cultivation of Christmas Trees. Commissioned to commemorate the season, these short poems, of around 40 lines each, considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation. In commentary with a narrative drive rhyming with the poems' own progress, Atkins brings the reader along on a "journey toward understanding," to the ultimate Mystery. The fresh, new readings demonstrate the artistic achievement of these remarkable poems"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 86-89) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- 1. Challenging Critical Orthodoxies, Confronting Binary Oppositions: The Commentator par lui-meme2. The Gift Half Understood, or Eliot's Ariel Poems: Beyond the Old Dispensation 3. "Triumphal March": The Problem Lies in Our Perceiving 4. "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees": Through the Eyes of Children (and the Child-like) 5. "Journey of the Magi": A Fable of Commentary: With a Second Coming to the Inexhaustible 6. "Animula": What the Simple Soul Knows, or "Living first in the silence after the viaticum"7. "A Song for Simeon": The Difference the Letter Makes: Prayer, Self-Criticism, Validity8. "Marina": "Living to live in a world of time beyond me": Recognizing, Perceiving, and Understanding.
600 10 $aEliot, T. S.$q(Thomas Stearns),$d1888-1965$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aEliot, T. S.$q(Thomas Stearns),$d1888-1965.$tAriel poems.
650 0 $aChristmas in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.$2bisacsh