T.S. Eliot's Ariel poems : making sense of the times
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T.S. Eliot's Ariel poems : making sense of the times
（Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature）
Routledge, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
T. S. Eliot once stated that the supreme poet "in writing himself, writes his time". In saying that, he honoured Dante and Shakespeare, but this pithy remark fittingly characterises his own work, including The Ariel Poems, with which he promptly and pointedly responded to the problems of his times. Published with unwavering regularity, a poem a year, the Ariels were composed in the period when Eliot was mainly writing prose; and, like his prose, they reverberated with diverse contemporary issues ranging from the revision of the Book of Common Prayer to the translations of Heidegger to the questions of leadership and populism. In order to highlight the poems' historical specificity, this study seeks to outline the constellations of thought connecting Eliot's poetry and prose. In addition, it attempts to expose the Ariels' shared arc of meaning, an unobtrusive incarnational metaphor determining the perspective from which they propose an unorthodox understanding of the epoch- an underlying pattern of thought bringing them together into a conceptually discrete set. This is the first study that both universalizes and historicises the series, striving to disclose the regular without suppressing the random. Approaching the series as a system of orderly disorder, the notion very much at home with chaos theory, it suggests new intellectual contexts, offering interpretations that are either fresh, or significantly reangled.
Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Incarnation, or, the elevation of the quotidian: Giorgione, Andrewes, and Kipling in the tangible world
Journey of the Magi, 1927
Chapter 2: Prayer incorporated in poetry
A Song for Simeon, 1928
Chapter 3: The intellect incarnate: opposing Walter Pater, supporting neo-Scholasticism
Animula, 1929
Chapter 4: Emotion embodied and sensation bethought
Marina, 1930
Chapter 5: An idea incarnated in an individual: German philosophy and the First Marshal of Poland
Triumphal March, 1931
Chapter 6: An incarnation of religion: the return to ritual with an altered attitude
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, 1954
Conclusion: Arcs converging
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