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Pennsylvania State University Press T. S. Eliot The Making of an American Poet
Book SynopsisEliot himself always maintained that his poems were not based on personal experience and thus should not be read as personal poems. The author challenges long-held assumptions about Eliot's poetry and his life. He demonstrates that Eliot's poetry is filled with reflections of his personal experiences.Trade Review“Given the importance of James E. Miller's previous work on Eliot for understanding the erotic energies driving his poetry, T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet is an especially welcome event. This biography represents the culmination of decades of research and will be indispensable reading for Eliot scholars.”—Tim Dean,University at Buffalo (SUNY)“For a figure as elusive as Eliot, whose runic remains no two readers interpret the same way, this makes for a valuable compendium—a kind of do-it-yourself portrait kit.”—Brian Hall Wilson Quarterly“Filled with revelations, assumptions, and recommendations for further research, T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, three parts meticulous research and one part speculation, is both weighty and intuitive. Easy to access, logically organized, scrupulously referenced, and index-friendly, Miller’s book is a satisfying treat for Eliot scholars who enjoy a coffee spoon of gossip with their literary research.”—Kathleen Nicklaus South Atlantic ReviewTable of Contents ContentsPrefaceA Note on SourcesIntroductionPart 1. 1888–1906: Origins1. Eliot’s St. Louis and “The Head of the Family” ;2. Sons and Lovers: Sex and Satan;3. A Frail Youth, a Bookish Boy;4. Early Landscapes, Later PoemsPart 2. 1902–1914: Early Influences1. Eliot at Fourteen: Atheistical, Despairing, Gloomy;2. Poetic Beginnings: Merry Friars and Pleading Lovers;3. Missourian, New Englander: Double Identity;4. A Soul’s Paralysis: “Denying the Importunity of the Blood”Part 3. 1906–1911: Harvard: Out from Under1. Prologue: A Problematic Student;2. Bohemian Boston at the Turn of the Century;3. Bohemian Harvard and Isabella Stewart Gardner (“Mrs. Jack”);4. A Fellow Poet: Conrad Aiken;5. “A Very Gay Companion”: Harold Peters;6. Practicing to Be a Poet: From Omar’s Atheism to Laforgue’s Masks;7. Poems Written 1906–1910Part 4. 1906–1910: Harvard Influences: Teachers, Texts, TemptationsTeachers: 1. Irving Babbitt: Human Imperfectability;2. Barrett Wendell: The Inexperience of America;3. George Santayana: Philosopher of Reason;4. William Allan Neilson: Poetic Theorist; Texts:5. Dante and Eliot’s “Persistent Concern with Sex”;6. Petronius’s Satyricon: A “Serene Unmorality”;7. Symons/Laforgue: The Ironic Mask;8. Havelock Ellis, “Sexual Inversion”;9. John Donne: Thought as Experience; Temptations:10. The Lure of Europe: Brooks’s The Wine of the Puritans;11. “T. S. Eliot, the Quintessence of Harvard”Part 5. 1910–1911: T. S. Eliot in Paris1. The Primacy of Paris, 1910–1911;2. Jean Verdenal: “Mon Meilleur Ami”;3. Matthew Prichard: A Blurred Portrait;4. Henri Bergson: A Brief Conversion;5. Charles Maurras: The Action Française;6. Finding the Personal in the Poem: Drafts of “Portrait” and “Prufrock”;7. Poems Written 1911–1914Part 6. 1911–1914: Eliot Absorbed in Philosophical Studies1. Prologue: The Rise of Harvard’s Philosophy Department and the Santayana Controversy;2. The Decline and Fall of Harvard Philosophy in Eliot’s Day and After;3. Eliot and Oriental Philosophies and Religions;4. Psychology as Philosophical, Religion as Psychological, Mysticism as Magical;5. Eliot and the Elusive Absolute;6. Epilogue: The Eliot Controversy,Part 7. 1914–1915: American Chaos versus English Tradition1. Philosophy in Marburg, War in Europe;2. London Interlude: Pound and Russell;3. Oxford, 1914–1915: Reconsidering Philosophy;4. New Friends and Old: Culpin, Blanshard, Pound, Lewis;5. The Mystery of Emily Hale: “The Aspern Papers in Reverse”Part 8. 1915: An Inexplicable Marriage and the Consequences1. A Sudden Marriage at the Registry Office;2. Who Was Vivien?;3. A Flurry of Correspondence, a Day of Decision;4. An Unhappy Visit Home (Gloucester, July 24–September 4), a Disastrous Honeymoon (Eastbourne, September 4–10);5. “Bertie” Russell’s “Friendship”;6. “What I Want Is MONEY!$!£;!! We are hard up! War!”;7. Hallucinations, Heavenly and Hellish Poetic Visions: “St. Sebastian” and “St. Narcissus”;8. Poems Written 1914–1915Part 9. 1916: Making Do, Finding Means, Expanding Connections1. “The Most Awful Nightmare of Anxiety”; “Pegasus in Harness”;2. The Triumph of Poetry over Philosophy;3. Reviews and Essays, Teaching and Lecturing: Total Immersion;4. A Widening Circle of Friends and Associates, Writers and ArtistsPart 10. 1917–1918: T. S. Eliot: Banker, Lecturer, Editor, Poet, Almost Soldier1. Eliot the Banker: March 19, 1917–November 1925;2. Eliot the Extension Lecturer;3. Eliot as Eeldrop;4. Eliot the Assistant Editor: June 1917–December 1919, ;5. Eliot the Poet, ;6. America Enters War: April 6, 1917–Armistice Day, November 11, 1918;7. “Writing . . . Again”: The French and Quatrain Poems;8. Poems Written 1917–1918Part 11. 1919–1920: Up the Ladder, Glimpsing the Top1. Death of a Father;2. Banking, Teaching, Editing, Writing: Money and Power;3. Friendships and Relationships: Deeper and Wider;4. A Voice from the Past; “An Encounter of Titans”; Moving Again;5. Three New Books: Poetry and Prose;6. “Gerontion”: Return of Fitzgerald’s Omar;7. Poems Written 1918–1920Part 12. 1919–1921: Notable Achievements, Domestic Disasters, Intimate Friends1. Prologue: Paris and the Pension Casaubon, Paris Again in the Spring;2. “A Long Poem . . . on my Mind for a Long Time”;3. A Family Visit: Mother, Brother, Sister—Wife;4. A Room of One’s Own, Wearing Makeup, Confidante Virginia Woolf;5. Roommates, “Renowned Pederasts”: Kitchin, Senhouse, RitchiePart 13. 1922: Over the Top1. “The Uranian Muse,” The Waste Land, and “il miglior fabbro”;2. Publication of The Waste Land;3. “Out into the World”: The Waste Land Reviewed;4. Pound’s Financial Scheme for Eliot: “Bel Esprit";5. Birth of The CriterionPart 14. A Glance Ahead: The Making of an American Poet1. T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman;2. An American Poet Discovers His American-nessReferences to Works by T. S. EliotReferences to Works by Other AuthorsIndex
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Book SynopsisTrade Review“For those who are already well versed in Romanticism and contemporart theory, the book will be a welcome addition to ongoing discussions, for it continues to develop, even while refining Haney’s project of exploring the relationship between hermeneutics and ethics initiated in William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation (1993). For those unfamiliar with such matters, it situates Coleridge within a fresh and provocative new set of contexts and raises some important questions concerning the relationship between ethics and interpretation, as well as rethinking the nature of imagination and its susceptibility to critique. A thoughtful and often illuminating study, the book brings Coleridge’s writings into a fruitful dialogue with the work of a number of contemporart thinkers, including Hans-George Gadamer, Emmanuel Levinas, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Ricoeur, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams.”—Christopher Strathman Wordsworth Circle“[Haney] is thoroughly conversant with Coleridge and Coleridge scholarship, as well as the relevant work of Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Levinas. Fluent in modern Continental philosophy, he is also familiar with the Anglo-American analytical discussion of ethics as well, an all too rare combination. If the conversation is at times challenging, it rewards the effort”—Thomas L. Cooksey South Atlantic Review“This impressive study of the ethical aspects of literacy criticism and interpretation is unusual in several respects: firstly in the subtlety and vigor with which it pursues the diverse ramifications of this important but neglected topic; secondly in the detailed connections it makes between Romantic theories and those of modern philosophers as diverse as Jurgen Havermas and Bernard Williams: and thirdly in its author’s willingness to explore the ethical premises and implications of recent criticism with a philosophical depth and incisiveness which resists assimilation to any single ideological position.”—David Vallins British Association for Romantic Studies“But there is no question but that the book is deeply pondered, full of what Leavis like to call ‘cerebral muscle’, and this reader, at any rate, was grateful to learn so much about Levinas and Ricoeur: the exposition is always lengthily patient and feels scrupulous, and the sense of Coleridge remarkably sure.”—Seamus Perry MLR“This challenging book is an eminently rewarding one to read. David P. Haney's grasp not only of Coleridge but also of the array of thinkers past and present he orchestrates together for a dialogue among themselves and Coleridge is impressive. The book explores the reciprocal relationship between ethics and the reading of texts, between the moral dimension of our interpretive efforts and the interpretive dimension of our actions toward one another. Granting the historically different interpretive horizons of earlier and later writers, Haney convincingly argues that Coleridge remains pertinent to modern issues and that—no surprise to Coleridgeans—his penchant for reconciling contraries and opposites remains crucial to any discussion of his thought. The book moves methodically from a general discussion of hermeneutics, ethics, and historicism to a final chapter on love, otherness, and the absolute self, which indirectly reveals the complex theological and personal tensions of Coleridge's own richly complex inner life. It is these lived tensions, of course, that often enabled him to reconcile conflicting interpretations and realities.”—Philip C. Rule, S.J. Christianity and Literature“I can think of no other contemporary scholar who has dealt in such a commanding way with the breadth and depth of Coleridge’s intellectual reach. . . . Certainly those interested in the whole area of ethics and literature will find much of value in the book.”—Phlip C. Rule, S.J. Christianity and Literature“Let it be said at once that David Haney has given us a remarkable and important book.If the ‘challenge of Coleridge’ is ‘to read him with an attentiveness both to his horizon and to our own that will enable his texts to "speak to us,"’ then David Haney has surely met the challenge. And the many-voiced conversation Haney has begun will continue, we may hope, for years to come.”—J. Robert Barth, S .J. Studies in Romanticism
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