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T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)

Autor de El libro de los gatos habilidosos del viejo Possum

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T. S. Eliot is considered by many to be a literary genius and one of the most influential men of letters during the half-century after World War I. He was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. Eliot attended Harvard University, with time abroad pursuing graduate studies at the mostrar más Sorbonne, Marburg, and Oxford. The outbreak of World War I prevented his return to the United States, and, persuaded by Ezra Pound to remain in England, he decided to settle there permanently. He published his influential early criticism, much of it written as occasional pieces for literary periodicals. He developed such doctrines as the "dissociation of sensibility" and the "objective correlative" and elaborated his views on wit and on the relation of tradition to the individual talent. Eliot by this time had left his early, derivative verse far behind and had begun to publish avant-garde poetry (including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which exploited fresh rhythms, abrupt juxtapositions, contemporary subject matter, and witty allusion. This period of creativity also resulted in another collection of verse (including "Gerontian") and culminated in The Waste Land, a masterpiece published in 1922 and produced partly during a period of psychological breakdown while married to his wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. In 1922, Eliot became a director of the Faber & Faber publishing house, and in 1927 he became a British citizen and joined the Church of England. Thereafter, his career underwent a change. With the publication of Ash Wednesday in 1930, his poetry became more overtly Christian. As editor of the influential literary magazine The Criterion, he turned his hand to social as well as literary criticism, with an increasingly conservative orientation. His religious poetry culminated in Four Quartets, published individually from 1936 onward and collectively in 1943. This work is often considered to be his greatest poetic achievement. Eliot also wrote poetry in a much lighter vein, such as Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), a collection that was used during the early 1980s as the basis for the musical, Cats. In addition to his contributions in poetry and criticism, Eliot is the pivotal verse dramatist of this century. He followed the lead of William Butler Yeats in attempting to revive metrical language in the theater. But, unlike Yeats, Eliot wanted a dramatic verse that would be self-effacing, capable of expressing the most prosaic passages in a play, and an insistent, undetected presence capable of elevating itself at a moment's notice. His progression from the pageant The Rock (1934) and Murder in the Cathedral (1935), written for the Canterbury Festival, through The Family Reunion (1939) and The Cocktail Party (1949), a West End hit, was thus a matter of neutralizing obvious poetic effects and bringing prose passages into the flow of verse. Recent critics have seen Eliot as a divided figure, covertly attracted to the very elements (romanticism, personality, heresy) he overtly condemned. His early attacks on romantic poets, for example, often reveal him as a romantic against the grain. The same divisions carry over into his verse, where violence struggles against restraint, emotion against order, and imagination against ironic detachment. This Eliot is more human and more attractive to contemporary taste. During his lifetime, Eliot received many honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Barry Hyams, Library of Congress

Series

Obras de T. S. Eliot

Cuatro cuartetos (1943) 3,288 copias
asesinato en la catedral (1935) 3,095 copias
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Selected Poems (1954) 2,914 copias
The Complete Poems and Plays (1952) 1,060 copias
La tierra baldía (1922) 1,044 copias
The Cocktail Party (1950) 878 copias
Christianity and Culture (1939) 588 copias
Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot (1975) 543 copias
Selected Essays (1932) 394 copias
Collected Poems, 1909–1935 (1936) 352 copias
El bosqe Sagrado (1920) 343 copias
The Family Reunion (1939) 299 copias
Eliot: Poems (1976) 238 copias
The Confidential Clerk (1954) 208 copias
Selected prose [ed. Hayward] (1953) 157 copias
Selected essays, 1917-1932 (1932) 101 copias
The Elder Statesman (1657) 99 copias
Pascal's Pensees (1958) 60 copias
Essays on Elizabethan Drama (1956) 54 copias
Poems 1909-1925 (1928) 50 copias
Ash Wednesday (1930) 43 copias
The Hollow Men (2000) 42 copias
For Lancelot Andrewes (1929) 36 copias
The Dry Salvages (1941) 34 copias
Little Gidding (1942) 33 copias
poemas (1920) 32 copias
dante (1929) 31 copias
Essays Ancient and Modern (1936) 30 copias
Burnt Norton (1941) 30 copias
What is a classic? (1945) 30 copias
Elizabethan Dramatists (1943) 28 copias
Poesía y drama (1951) 28 copias
East Coker (1940) 24 copias
The Rock: A Pageant Play (1934) 21 copias
Dikter i svensk tolkning (1987) 19 copias
Elizabethan essays (1934) 16 copias
Eeldrop and Appleplex (1992) 16 copias
Journey of the Magi (1927) 16 copias
Preludes 15 copias
Cori Da La Rocca (1994) 15 copias
Die Dramen (1974) 15 copias
TEATRE (1992) 14 copias
Opere 1904-1939 (1992) 14 copias
Milton (1948) 12 copias
Gedichten (1983) 12 copias
Points of View (1705) 12 copias
Poesie (1949) 11 copias
La terra eixorca (1977) 11 copias
George Herbert (1968) 11 copias
Macavity's Not There! (2016) 10 copias
The Essential T.S. Eliot (2020) 9 copias
Poems and prose 9 copias
Later Poems 1925 - 1935 (1941) 7 copias
Gedichten 1917-1930 (2019) 7 copias
Essais choisis (1999) 7 copias
Opere (1939-1962) (1993) 7 copias
Opere (1993) 6 copias
La sorella velata (2000) 6 copias
Selected Poems (1963) 6 copias
Valitud esseesid (1997) 6 copias
Trettiotalspoetik (1983) 6 copias
Select Poems (2018) 5 copias
Vier kwartetten (2022) 5 copias
Marina (1930) 5 copias
Animula (1929) 5 copias
Valik esseid 4 copias
Utvalgte essays 4 copias
Om kritik (2002) 3 copias
The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2009) 3 copias
Teatro 3 copias
Poesia completa (2021) 3 copias
Dikter (1948) 3 copias
T. S. Eliot versei (1978) 3 copias
Ensaios 2 copias
The Second-Order Mind (1996) 2 copias
Tutto il teatro (2003) 2 copias
Det öde landet 2 copias
Corak Ülke (2022) 2 copias
Ensaios Escolhidos (2000) 2 copias
Poems: The Waste Land und weitere Gedichte (2013) — Autor; Narrador — 2 copias
Poems (Large Print) (2007) 2 copias
Ara vus prec (2010) 2 copias
Two poems 1 copia
The Gloucester Notebook (2021) 1 copia
The Design Of His Poetry (1950) 1 copia
tin house 1 copia
Water 1 copia
Wybór poezji (1988) 1 copia
Poemas 1 copia
Kootut runot (2022) 1 copia
Pesmi 1 copia
Voices and Visions (1996) 1 copia
Elveszett költemények (1997) 1 copia
The Naming of Cats (2021) 1 copia
Gala Day London (1953) 1 copia
Der Vers. 1 copia
Pensees 1 copia
Poemes 1925-1930 (2014) 1 copia
Poesia (2000) 1 copia
The Definitive Poems (2013) 1 copia
Песни (2003) 1 copia
Scritti su Dante (1994) 1 copia
Essays, in 2 Bdn. (1996) 1 copia
Selected Works (2008) 1 copia
The Rock 1 copia
Stücke 1 copia
The Criterion 1 copia
Su hombre de confianza. (1959) 1 copia
Memoir 1 copia
Denemeler 1 copia

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Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
Eliot, Thomas Stearns
Otros nombres
Eliot, Tom
Old Possum
Conybeare, Charles Augustus
Grimble, Reverend Charles James
Schwartz, Muriel A.
Spence, J. A. D. (mostrar todos 8)
Trundlett, Helen B.
Krutzch, Gus
Fecha de nacimiento
1888-09-26
Fecha de fallecimiento
1965-01-04
Lugar de sepultura
St. Michael's Church, East Coker, Somerset, England, UK
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA (birth)
UK (naturalized)
Lugar de nacimiento
St. Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
Lugar de fallecimiento
Kensington, London, England, UK
Causa de fallecimiento
Emphysema
Lugares de residencia
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France
London, England, UK
Educación
Harvard University (BA ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1909)
Harvard University (MA ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1910)
Sorbonne, Paris, France
University of Oxford (Merton College)
Ocupaciones
poet
literary critic
playwright
publisher
editor
banker (mostrar todos 8)
professor
essayist / reviewer
Relaciones
Eliot, Valerie née Fletcher (second wife)
Eliot, William Greenleaf (grandfather)
Eliot, Charlotte (mother)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Aiken, Conrad (friend)
Russell, Bertrand (friend) (mostrar todos 21)
Yeats, William Butler (friend)
Lewis, Wyndham (friend)
Joyce, James (friend)
Valery, Paul (friend)
Moore, Marianne (friend)
Hayward, John Davy (friend)
Read, Herbert (friend)
Sencourt, Robert (friend)
Trevelyan, Mary (friend)
Zabel, Morton Dauwen (friend)
Betjeman, John (student)
Santayana, George (teacher)
Babbitt, Irving (teacher)
Bergson, Henri (teacher)
Vivienne Eliot née Haigh-Wood
Organizaciones
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (honorary member)
Lloyds Bank (clerk)
The Criterion (founder and editor)
The Egoist (assistant editor)
Poetry magazine (contributor)
Faber and Faber (literary editor) (mostrar todos 26)
Society of King Charles the Martyr
Wesleyan University Press
Classical Association (president)
Virgil Society (president)
Books Across the Sea (president)
Accademia dei Lincei (foreign member)
Bayerische Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste (foreign member)
Athenaeum
Garrick Club
Oxford and Cambridge Club
London Library (president)
High Wycombe Grammar School, London (teacher)
Highgate School, London (teacher)
Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry)
Harvard University (Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecturer)
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (resident)
University of Virginia (Page-Barbour Lecturer)
University of Chicago (lecturer)
Library of Congress (lecturer)
Trinity College, Cambridge (Clark Lecturer)
Premios y honores
Premi Nobel de Literatura, 1948

Miembros

Debates

Folio Society -- The Waste Land LE -- Review en Fine Press Forum (enero 17)
LE: The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot en Folio Society Devotees (enero 15)
Who is your favorite poet? en Young Fogey's Fire Place (abril 2023)
Jeremy Irons reads 'The Naming of Cats' en Cats, books, life is good. (enero 2016)

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Hi ha una dedicatòria de la Mariona Mas
 
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miquel_garcia | 22 reseñas más. | Nov 1, 2022 |
 
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miquel_garcia | Nov 1, 2022 |
El libro sería imposible de entender sin las notas del propio Eliot más las del editor. El autor da la pista de sus fuentes y de su intención última, y aquí el editor lo desarrolla, añadiendo bastantes referencias más. Así que, entre introducciones y notas se va más de la mitad de la paginación; el resto lo ocupa la versión bilingüe del poema. Mejor, de los poemas, porque son cinco, de extensión variable.

Por lo visto, el poeta ve el mundo como una tierra desolada ("waste land"), pero en la que alguien va buscando el sentido contra todo pronóstico, para al final abrirse a la esperanza de una resurrección. Esta búsqueda tiene un claro componente religioso, cristiano, pero a través de la leyenda del Santo Grial y con numerosas alusiones hinduístas y budistas. Si no estás familiarizado con estas cosas y no quieres leer las notas, estás perdido. Porque no hay un hilo conductor. Todo está muy fragmentado y el poeta salta continuamente de contexto. Cuando me he dado cuenta de ello, he hecho dos lecturas. La primera, en español y leyendo las notas. Después, al terminar cada parte, en inglés (con un ojo puesto en la traducción) sin las notas, y me ha funcionado. Muchas cosas se quedaron sin entender, pero me han llegado algunas imágenes y versos, como el célebre inicial ("April is the cruellest month, breeding"), el repetido "Sweet Thames, run softly" de la tercera parte o la escena de los dos exploradores árticos que creen ver a una tercera persona junto a ellos. En conjunto, no me ha dejado pensando, porque el Grial y sus raíces orientales me pillan bastante a contrapelo, pero sí cosas como las que he mencionado siguen rondado mi cabeza. Eso es muy buena señal.… (más)
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caflores | 23 reseñas más. | Aug 22, 2022 |
tapa dura. Literatura inglesa. Poesía lírica. Siglo XX. (821.111-14"19") Círculo de Lectores. Barcelona. 2001. 22 cm. 207 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. The waste land. Traducción y prólogo de Juan Malpartida y Jordi Doce ; edición al cuidado de Nicanor Vélez. Texto original y traducción al español. Eliot, T. S.1888-1965. Poesía. Vélez, Nicanor. 1959-. Cuatro cuartetos y otros poemas . ISBN: 84-226-8606-6 JG61.
 
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