Selected essays / by T.S. Eliot
1951, 3rd edition, reprinted. London : Faber and Faber. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Scattered foxing, a few and subtle pencil marks in the index. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #422352
Physical description; 516 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Previous ed. 1934. Contents; I. Tradition and the individual talent (1919). The function of criticism (1923). -- II. 'Rhetoric' and poetic drama (1919). A dialogue on dramatic poetry (1928). Euripedes and Professor Murray (1920). Seneca in Elizabethan translation (1927). -- III. Four Elizabethan dramatists (1924). Christopher Marlowe (1919). Shakespeare and the stoicism of Seneca (1927). Hamlet (1919). Ben Jonson (1919). Thomas Middleton (1927). Thomas Heywood (1931). Cyril Tourneur (1930). John Ford (1932). Philip Massinger (1920). John Marston (1934). -- IV. Dante (1929). -- V. The metaphysical poets (1921). Andrew Marvell (1921). John Dryden (1921). William Blake (1920). Swinburne as poet (1920). In memoriam (1936). VI. Lancelot Andrewes (1926). John Bramhall (1927). Thoughts after Lambeth (1931). Religion and literature (1935). The 'Pensees' of Pascal (1931). -- VII. Baudelaire (1930). Arnold and Pater (1930). Francis Herbert Bradley (1927). Marie Lloyd (1923). Wilkie Collins and Dickens (1927). The humanism of Irving Babbitt (1928). Second thoughts about humanism (1929). Charles Whibley (1931). Modern education and the classics (1932). Subjects; Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965 knowledge literature. Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965. Knowledge History literature. English essays. Literature - History and criticism. English literature - 20th century - Collections. Addresses, essays and lectures. English essays 20th century. English literature 20th century. Literature History and criticism. History; criticism; literature. English prose literature. Criticism English literature.
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