T. S. ELIOT ANNUAL NO. 1

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1 T. S. ELIOT ANNUAL NO. 1

2 Macmillan Literary Annuals YEATS ANNUAL Nos 1, 2 Edited by Richard J. Finneran YEATS ANNUAL Nos 3, 4, 5 Edited by Warwick Gould THOMAS HARDY ANNUAL Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Edited by Norman Page O'CASEY ANNUAL Nos 1, 2, 3, 4 Edited by Robert G. Lowery Further titles in preparation Also by Shyamal Bagchee PERSPECTIVES ON O'NEILL: New Essays *T. S. ELIOT: A VOICE DESCANTING * Also published by Macmillan Series Standing Order If you would like to receive future titles in this series as they are published, you can make use of our standing order facility. To place a standing order please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address and the name of the series. Please state with which title you wish to begin your standing order. (If you live outside the UK we may not have the rights for your area, in which case we will forward your order to the publisher concerned.) Standing Order Service, Macmillan Distribution Ud, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG212XS, England.

3 T. S. ELIOT ANNUAL N0.1 Edited by Shyamal Bagchee University of Alberta M

4 Editorial Matter Shyamal Bagchee 1990 The Macmillan Press Ltd 1990 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WClE 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1990 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world Typeset by Wessex Typesetters (Division of The Eastern Press Ltd) Frome, Somerset British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data T. S. Eliot annual.-no. 1-(Macmillan literary annuals). 1. Eliot, T. S.-Criticism and interpretation I. T. S. Eliot-book reviews 821'. 912 PS3509. L43Z/ ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI /

5 To the memory of Baba (the late H. K. Sen)

6 Contents Notes on the Contributors Editor's Notes Acknowledgements ix xi xiii ARTICLES From 'Burnt Norton' to 'East Coker': The Passing of the Unified Sensibility Grover Smith 3 Sustained Stages and States: Eliot's Peculiar Personae George T. Wright 19 Eliot's Classicism: A Study in Allusional Method and Design Lois A. Cuddy 27 The poetry does not matter': Four Quartets and the Rhetoric of Humility Victor P. H. Li 63 The Voices of Eliot's 'Preludes': Listening Closely to the Poem and the Poet Lawrence B. Gamache 87 Tzara in The Waste Land Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio 103 Wilde and Eliot Richard Shusterman 117 Arnold Bennett and T. S. Eliot: What Happened to Sweeney Agonistes? Hans Hauge 145 OCCASIONAL MONOGRAPH The Function of 'Prufrock' for Criticism Stanley Sultan 155 REVIEW ESSAY Further Notes on the 'Bradleian Vein' in Eliot Studies Armin Paul Frank 199 REVIEWS Carlos Baker: The Echoing Green: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Phenomena of Transference in Poetry Brian John 215 Eloise Knapp Hay: T. S. Eliot's Negative Way J. Birje-Patil 219 vii

7 Vlll Contents Edward Lobb: T. S. Eliot and the Romantic Critical Tradition, and Rajnath: T. S. Eliot's Theory of Poetry: A Study of the Changing Critical Ideas in the Development of His Prose and Poetry Rob Jackaman 222 Stoddard Martin: Wagner to 'The Waste Land': A Study of the Relationship of Wagner to English Literature Raymond Furness 226 Grover Smith: The Waste Land Burton Raffel 228 Leonard Unger: Eliot's Compound Ghost: Influence and Confluence Cleanth Brooks 230

8 Notes on the Contributors J. Birje-Patil is Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of Baroda, India. Among his many publications are books on Eliot and Shakespeare. Cleanth Brooks, the distinguished scholar and critic of Modern literature, is Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. Lois A. Cuddy is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. She has published several articles on Eliot and is the author of a book on his poetry. Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio is an Associate Professor at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Armin Paul Frank is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Gottingen. His publications include a book on Eliot's literary criticism, articles on Eliot in Canadian, German and American journals, and three Eliot bibliographies. He is the Contributing Editor for Continental Europe of the Yeats Eliot Review. Raymond Furness is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. Among his publications are Expressionism and The Twentieth Century, , the latter a history of Modernism in German literature. Lawrence B. Gamache is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Most of his earlier publications deal with the works of D. H. Lawrence. He is co-editor of a volume of critical essays entitled The Modernists: Study of a Literary Phenomenon. Hans Hauge teaches English at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He has previously taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Rob Jackaman teaches English at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He has published essays on Yeats, Pound, Dylan Thomas, David Gascoyne, Ted Hughes, and on surrealism. He is also the author of a number of books of poetry. ix

9 X Notes on the Contributors Brian John is Professor of English at McMaster University, Ontario, where he is also the Director of Graduate Studies. Among his publications is Supreme Fictions, a study of Blake, Carlyle, Yeats and Lawrence. Professor John's special interest is in the connections between Romanticism and Modernism. Victor P.H. Li obtained his doctorate at the University of Cambridge and taught for some years at the National University of Singapore. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has published a number of essays on Eliot. Burton Raffel, Professor of English at the University of Denver and the Editor of the Denver Quarterly, is a poet, scholar and translator. His book-length study of Eliot was published in the United States in Richard Shusterman, is the author of The Object of Literary Criticism (Humanities Press, 1987), T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (Columbia University Press, 1988) and numerous articles on philosophy and literary theory. He has edited Analytic Aesthetics (Blackwell, 1989) and is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia. Grover Smith is Professor of English at Duke University. Among his publications are the authoritative edition of the letters of Aldous Huxley and the indispensable T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning. He is a Consulting Editor of the Yeats Eliot Review. Stanley Sultan is Professor of English at Clark University, Boston. His many publications include The Argument of'ulysses', 'Ulysses', 'The Waste Land', and Modernism, and Yeats at His Last. A companion essay on 'Prufrock' by Professor Sultan has already appeared in Journal of Modern Literature (March 1985). George T. Wright, who has published extensively on Renaissance and Modern literature, is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Twice winner of the annual William Riley Parker Prize for the best essay published in PMLA, Professor Wright has also written The Poet in the Poem: The Personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound.

10 Editor's Notes Although a new publication, the T. S. Eliot Annual proposes to continue the work begun in 1974 by the T. S. Eliot Review (now the Yeats Eliot Review). The annual publishes research-based essays on all aspects of Eliot studies and reviews books of interest to Eliot scholars. It seeks to be international in its representation and includes works by both established and young scholars. Notes about forthcoming publications, works in progress, conferences, special library acquisitions and so forth are included at the discretion of the Editor. The Library of the University of Gottingen has announced the publication of the following volume: Armin Paul Frank, T. S. Eliot Criticism and Scholarship in German: A Descriptive Survey, , With Reference to the Holdings of the Niedersiichsiche Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek at Gottingen. (Vol. 20 of Arbeiten aus Niedersiichsischen Staats- und Universitiitsbibliothek Gottingen.) Ed. Erika Hulpke. 226 pp. DM Copies are available from Der Direktor, Niedersachsische Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek, Prinzenstrasse 1, D-3400 Gottingen, Germany (F.R.). The T. S. Eliot Society The Society, located in StLouis, Missouri, the birthplace of Eliot, has been in operation for several years. Its members celebrate the poet's birthday every year in September at which time an invited speaker delivers the annual Eliot Memorial Lecture. Past Eliot Memorial Lecturers have included Grover Smith and Ronald Schuchard. A special Centenary Celebration was mounted by the Society in Inquiries about the Society may be directed to Earl K. Holt III, Treasurer, T. S. Eliot Society, 5007Waterman Boulevard, StLouis, Missouri, 63108, USA. Postscript For reasons beyond the editor's control, this inaugural issue of the Annual is appearing in print after a considerable delay owing to technical considerations. The editor thanks the contributors for xi

11 xii Editor's Notes their courtesy and patience and offers them his sincere apologies. * * * Opinions expressed in signed contributions are not necessarily endorsed by the Annual, its Editor or its publishers.

12 Acknowledgements The editor, the contributors and the publishers wish to thank the following who have kindly given permission to reproduce the copyright material: Faber & Faber Limited, Publishers and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. for permission to use excerpts from SELECTED ESSAYS by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1950 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; renewed 1978 by Esme Valerie Eliot; for fragments from COLLEC TED POEMS by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; copyright 1963, 1964 by T. S. Eliot; for lines from 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', and 'Little Gidding' in FOUR QUARTETS, copyright 1943 by T. S. Eliot; renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Faber & Faber should also be thanked for permission to use various very short quotes from: T. S. Eliot, DANTE (London: Faber & Faber, 1929); T. S. Eliot, 'Introduction', SELECTED POEMS OF EZRA POUND (London: Faber & Faber, 1928); KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF F. H. BRADLEY (London: Faber & Faber, 1964); THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS OFT. S. ELIOT, (London: Faber & Faber, 1969); THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM (London: Faber & Faber, 1964); ON POETRY AND POETS (London: Faber & Faber, 1957); from TO CRITICISE THE CRITIC (London: Faber & Faber, 1978); quotations from T. S. Eliot 'The Function of a Literary Review', The Criterion, 1923; T. S. Eliot, 'Studies in Contemporary Criticism', The Egoist, 1918; and T. S. Eliot, 'A Sceptical Patrician', The Atheneum, 1919; T. S. Eliot, 'Turgenev', The Egoist, 1917; T. S. Eliot (Crites), 'A Commentary', The Criterion, Every effort has been made to trace all the copyright-holders but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. xiii