The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. EliotClarendon Press, 1987 - 251 sider Primitive and metropolitan life nourished T. S. Eliot's imagination and emerged as recurrent themes in his work. Examining these twin concerns, Robert Crawford sheds new light on the poet's achievement--particularly those works that culminated in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes--and clarifies Eliot's relentless obsession with "savages" and sophisticates. |
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... Harvard , Eliot knew an actual city , and enjoyed several of its distinctly urban pleasures . As a Harvard undergraduate he enjoyed melodrama at Boston's Grand Opera House.44 It was a taste which would lead him to Marie Lloyd , and it ...
... Harvard , Eliot knew an actual city , and enjoyed several of its distinctly urban pleasures . As a Harvard undergraduate he enjoyed melodrama at Boston's Grand Opera House.44 It was a taste which would lead him to Marie Lloyd , and it ...
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... Harvard , and ' savages ' , to use the terminology which he found in the anthropology of the day , were popular.1 In 1907 the Harvard Advocate published a story whose white protagonist is directed into the jungle by ' Buldino tribesmen ...
... Harvard , and ' savages ' , to use the terminology which he found in the anthropology of the day , were popular.1 In 1907 the Harvard Advocate published a story whose white protagonist is directed into the jungle by ' Buldino tribesmen ...
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... Harvard of Eliot's student days . Such varied themes converged when as a young man Eliot read anthropological works . The world of the savage would be brought to confront the world of the city in his early poetry . · • At Eliot's Harvard ...
... Harvard of Eliot's student days . Such varied themes converged when as a young man Eliot read anthropological works . The world of the savage would be brought to confront the world of the city in his early poetry . · • At Eliot's Harvard ...
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