The sacred wood; essays on poetry and criticism
The first volume of T.S. Eliot's criticism to be published; includes essays on Dante, Swinburne, Blake and the contemporaries of Shakespeare, on poetry, poetic drama and the criticism of poetry.
Print Book, English, [1950, reprinted 1969]
[7th ed.] View all formats and editions
Methuen, London, [1950, reprinted 1969]
xix, 171 pages 22 cm
9780416374100, 9780416676105, 0416374107, 0416676103
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Preface
Introduction
The perfect critic
Imperfect critics. Swinburne as critic ; A romantic aristocrat ; The local flavour ; A note on the American critic ; The French intelligence
Tradition and the individual talent
The possibility of a poetic drama
Euripides and Professor Murray
"Rhetoric" and poetic drama
Notes on the blank verse of Christopher Marlowe ; Hamlet and his problems
Ben Jonson
Philip Massinger
Swinburne as poet
Blake
Dante