{"product_id":"t-s-eliot-the-making-of-an-american-poet-18881922-penn-state-press-9780271027623","title":"T. S. Eliot The Making of an American Poet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEliot 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Given the importance of James E. Miller's previous work on Eliot for understanding the erotic energies driving his poetry,\u003ci\u003e T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet\u003c\/i\u003e is an especially welcome event. This biography represents the culmination of decades of research and will be indispensable reading for Eliot scholars.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Tim Dean,University at Buffalo (SUNY)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Brian Hall \u003ci\u003eWilson Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Filled with revelations, assumptions, and recommendations for further research, \u003ci\u003eT.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Kathleen Nicklaus \u003ci\u003eSouth Atlantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on Sources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1. 1888–1906: Origins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Eliot’s St. Louis and “The Head of the Family” ;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Sons and Lovers: Sex and Satan;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. A Frail Youth, a Bookish Boy;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Early Landscapes, Later Poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2. 1902–1914: Early Influences\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Eliot at Fourteen: Atheistical, Despairing, Gloomy;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Poetic Beginnings: Merry Friars and Pleading Lovers;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Missourian, New Englander: Double Identity;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. A Soul’s Paralysis: “Denying the Importunity of the Blood”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3. 1906–1911: Harvard: Out from Under\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Prologue: A Problematic Student;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Bohemian Boston at the Turn of the Century;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Bohemian Harvard and Isabella Stewart Gardner (“Mrs. Jack”);\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. A Fellow Poet: Conrad Aiken;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. “A Very Gay Companion”: Harold Peters;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Practicing to Be a Poet: From Omar’s Atheism to Laforgue’s Masks;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Poems Written 1906–1910\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4. 1906–1910: Harvard Influences: Teachers, Texts, Temptations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeachers: 1. Irving Babbitt: Human Imperfectability;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Barrett Wendell: The Inexperience of America;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. George Santayana: Philosopher of Reason;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. William Allan Neilson: Poetic Theorist; Texts:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Dante and Eliot’s “Persistent Concern with Sex”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Petronius’s Satyricon: A “Serene Unmorality”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Symons\/Laforgue: The Ironic Mask;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Havelock Ellis, “Sexual Inversion”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. John Donne: Thought as Experience; \u003ci\u003eTemptations\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. The Lure of Europe: Brooks’s \u003ci\u003eThe Wine of the Puritans\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. “T. S. Eliot, the Quintessence of Harvard”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 5. 1910–1911: T. S. Eliot in Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Primacy of Paris, 1910–1911;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Jean Verdenal: “Mon Meilleur Ami”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Matthew Prichard: A Blurred Portrait;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Henri Bergson: A Brief Conversion;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Charles Maurras: The Action Française;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Finding the Personal in the Poem: Drafts of “Portrait” and “Prufrock”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Poems Written 1911–1914\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 6. 1911–1914: Eliot Absorbed in Philosophical Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Prologue: The Rise of Harvard’s Philosophy Department and the Santayana Controversy;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. The Decline and Fall of Harvard Philosophy in Eliot’s Day and After;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Eliot and Oriental Philosophies and Religions;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Psychology as Philosophical, Religion as Psychological, Mysticism as Magical;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Eliot and the Elusive Absolute;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Epilogue: The Eliot Controversy,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 7. 1914–1915: American Chaos versus English Tradition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Philosophy in Marburg, War in Europe;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. London Interlude: Pound and Russell;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Oxford, 1914–1915: Reconsidering Philosophy;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. New Friends and Old: Culpin, Blanshard, Pound, Lewis;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Mystery of Emily Hale: “\u003ci\u003eThe Aspern Papers\u003c\/i\u003e in Reverse”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 8. 1915: An Inexplicable Marriage and the Consequences\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. A Sudden Marriage at the Registry Office;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Who Was Vivien?;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. A Flurry of Correspondence, a Day of Decision;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. An Unhappy Visit Home (Gloucester, July 24–September 4), a Disastrous Honeymoon (Eastbourne, September 4–10);\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. “Bertie” Russell’s “Friendship”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. “What I Want Is MONEY!$!£;!! We are hard up! War!”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Hallucinations, Heavenly and Hellish Poetic Visions: “St. Sebastian” and “St. Narcissus”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Poems Written 1914–1915\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 9. 1916: Making Do, Finding Means, Expanding Connections\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. “The Most Awful Nightmare of Anxiety”; “Pegasus in Harness”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. The Triumph of Poetry over Philosophy;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Reviews and Essays, Teaching and Lecturing: Total Immersion;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. A Widening Circle of Friends and Associates, Writers and Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 10. 1917–1918: T. S. Eliot: Banker, Lecturer, Editor, Poet, Almost Soldier\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Eliot the Banker: March 19, 1917–November 1925;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Eliot the Extension Lecturer;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Eliot as Eeldrop;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Eliot the Assistant Editor: June 1917–December 1919, ;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Eliot the Poet, ;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. America Enters War: April 6, 1917–Armistice Day, November 11, 1918;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. “Writing . . . Again”: The French and Quatrain Poems;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Poems Written 1917–1918\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 11. 1919–1920: Up the Ladder, Glimpsing the Top\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Death of a Father;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Banking, Teaching, Editing, Writing: Money and Power;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Friendships and Relationships: Deeper and Wider;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. A Voice from the Past; “An Encounter of Titans”; Moving Again;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Three New Books: Poetry and Prose;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. “Gerontion”: Return of Fitzgerald’s Omar;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Poems Written 1918–1920\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 12. 1919–1921: Notable Achievements, Domestic Disasters, Intimate Friends\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Prologue: Paris and the Pension Casaubon, Paris Again in the Spring;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. “A Long Poem . . . on my Mind for a Long Time”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. A Family Visit: Mother, Brother, Sister—Wife;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. A Room of One’s Own, Wearing Makeup, Confidante Virginia Woolf;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Roommates, “Renowned Pederasts”: Kitchin, Senhouse, Ritchie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 13. 1922: Over the Top\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. “The Uranian Muse,” \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e, and “\u003ci\u003eil miglior fabbro\u003c\/i\u003e”;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. “Out into the World”: \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e Reviewed;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Pound’s Financial Scheme for Eliot: “Bel Esprit\";\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Birth of The Criterion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 14. A Glance Ahead: The Making of an American Poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. An American Poet Discovers His American-ness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences to Works by T. S. Eliot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences to Works by Other Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400780816727,"sku":"9780271027623","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271027623.jpg?v=1730471558","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/t-s-eliot-the-making-of-an-american-poet-18881922-penn-state-press-9780271027623","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}