Rough Guide to TS Eliot

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So I'm taking an independent study -- me and a teacher have our own period two, three times a week and we make the course together -- in TS Eliot. This means that I have to pick a bunch of the dude and me and Mr. Lovaas are going to have it out.

The thing is, I don't know what to pick. That's where you come in.

What, aside from The Waste Land, is the best/most essential/best introduction/etc of TS Eliot?

― roberton, Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

and you picked just the right place to ask!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

He's really not that prolific when you eliminate his critical writings (and I'm not sure how prolific he is even as a critic). I'm not saying that to dismiss him at all, but reading all of Eliot's poems (especially if you eliminate poetry published posthumously) and plays is perfectly manageable.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Go here: T.S. Eliot: Search & Destroy

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 22 August 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Ash Wednesday
Hollow Men
Four Quartets
Tradition and the Individual Talent
What Is a Classic?
Ulysses, Order and Myth
Baudelaire
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

― bugged out, Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Prufrock, Prufrock, and more Prufrock!

― nader (nader), Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

and remember, when they talk about washing their feet in soda water in the waste lands, TS is being polite about the vaginal hygeine of whores. Truth.

― Queen G to the E to the zra, Sunday, 22 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

hay eng lit people, what is the deal with 'the waste land'?

not the deep thematic stuff, the surface narrative.

i'm getting displaced persons of eastern europe, city of london drudges, pub people, and it feels like a 'story' but is it?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think of it as a narrative. If it's a narrative, it's about an individual. However, your idea is at least interesting, and I haven't seen it before (and I've read exactly zero critcal essays or books on the Waste Land for the last 20 years, but I do have some vague sense of what type of thing has been said abut it).

Why Eastern Europe?

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual. . . masturbation phantasy

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Friday, 27 February 2009 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

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