Lectures (Video)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Robert Frost
- 3. Robert Frost (cont)
- 4. William Butler Yeats
- 5. William Butler Yeats (cont)
- 6. William Butler Yeats (cont) III
- 7. World War I Poetry in England
- 8. Imagism
- 9. Ezra Pound
- 10. T. S. Eliot
- 11. T. S. Eliot (cont)
- 12. T. S. Eliot (cont) III
- 13. Hart Crane
- 14. Hart Crane (cont)
- 15. Langston Hughes
- 16. William Carlos Williams
- 17. Marianne Moore
- 18. Marianne Moore (cont)
- 19. Wallace Stevens
- 20. Wallace Stevens (cont)
- 21. Wallace Stevens (cont) III
- 22. W. H. Auden
- 23. W. H. Auden (cont)
- 24. Elizabeth Bishop
- 25. Elizabeth Bishop (cont)
Modern Poetry - Lecture 10
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Lecture 10 - T. S. Eliot
The early poetry of T.S. Eliot is examined. Differences between Pound and Eliot, in particular the former's interest in translation versus the latter's in quotation, are suggested. Eliot's relationship to tradition is considered in his essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent." The early poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is read, with emphasis on the poem's resistance to traditional forms and its complicated depiction of its speaker's fragmentary consciousness.
Prof. Langdon Hammer
Modern Poetry, Spring 2007 (Yale University: Open Yale) http://oyc.yale.edu Date accessed: 2009-11-08 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
Lecture Material
Supplementary lecture material is listed below.1. Section Activity: T.S. Eliot (pdf)
2. Section Activity: Eliot and Proust (pdf)
3. Section Activity: Eliot and Wordsworth (pdf)