Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996 - 428 oldal
A few months before The Waste Land was published in 1922, T.S. Eliot gave the manuscript to his benefactor in New York, John Quinn. At the same time, he sold to Quinn a notebook containing about fifty poems that he had written during his twenties. It was not until 1968, three years after the poet's death, that the double cache was unveiled within the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. The early poems, from the notebook and the accompanying leaves, are now at last published, all but a few of them for the first time. Of great interest, both technical and human, they reveal the young Eliot in the process of creating himself and his art: ruminating on the blind alleys and vacant lots of the city, exploring the perplexities of the modern age (doubt, ennui, indifference, dismay, affectation), and experimenting with a variety of poetic forms (urban pastoral, lyric, satire, the prose poem). Complementing the new poems, which include several bawdy verses, are "richly informative drafts" (The Observer, London) of many of Eliot's best-known poems, among them "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (with a previously unpublished fragment), "Portrait of a Lady" (signally and subtly different from the published text), many versions of "Whispers of Immortality," and "Ode" (not reprinted since 1920).

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Convictions Curtain Raiser II
11
Opera
17
Sensations of April
23
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock lines 169
39
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock resumed
45
in a Bar
51
From An Agony in the Garret
57
First Debate between the Body and Soul
64
The Love Song of St Sebastian
78
Airs of Palestine No 2
84
The Engine III
90
APPENDIX
323
APPENDIX C
347
Influence and influences
385
Index to the Editorial Material
415
Index of Titles and First Lines
427

The smoke that gathers blue and sinks
70

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A szerzőről (1996)

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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