The Dramas of T. S. Eliot and their Greek Models. [From: Greece & Rome, 2nd. S., Vol. 17, No. 2, October 1970].

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pp. 123-134. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to W. Haase. - Binding a bit light-margined, rubbed and lightly bumped, author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise good and clean. - From the text: THE death of T. S. Eliot removed from the world of English letters a staunch and resolute advocate of the Greek tradition in our modern literature. The precise interaction between this tradition in which the poet believed so firmly and his own five verse dramas therefore deserves some consideration. Before the War he had already composed two successful poetic dramas. These were Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival of 1935, and The Family Reunion, which was first produced in 1939. In 1941 Eliot was invited to become president of the Classical Association, and his presidential address delivered at Easter 1942 was entitled The Classics and the Man of Letters. With this lecture not all present-day academic teachers and critics of English Literature can be expected to find themselves in full agreement, but his opinions are none the less still worthy of attention, if only for the hints they give about their author s own literary methods. In the course of his lecture Eliot remarked: It should be apparent that our prime concern in considering the education of the man of letters is not the amount of learning which a man acquires, or the degree of scholastic distinction which he attains what is of prime importance is the type of education within which his schooling falls. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1182118

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