T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Auteur de Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: Barry Hyams, Library of Congress
Séries
Œuvres de T. S. Eliot
La terre vaine : Et autres poèmes, édition bilingue français-anglais (1922) — Auteur — 4,480 exemplaires
The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (1971) 494 exemplaires
The Waste Land and Other Poems: T. S. Eliot (Faber Poetry) 23 exemplaires
La tierra baldía/ The Waste Land: Prufrock y otras observaciones / Prufrock and Other Observations (Spanish Edition) (2015) 22 exemplaires
Works of T. S. Eliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land, Portrait of a Lady & more (Mobi… (2010) 19 exemplaires
Poemas (Em Portugues do Brasil) 18 exemplaires
Preludes 14 exemplaires
Gedichten, toneel en essays 13 exemplaires
T.S. Eliot Reads: Four Quartets, the Waste Land, the Hollow Men, and Other of His Poems/Audio Cassettes (The Great… (1992) 9 exemplaires
Poems and prose 8 exemplaires
Let Us Go Then: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Obvious State Classics Collection) (2019) 8 exemplaires
Murder in the Cathedral / the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / and Other Poems (1993) 8 exemplaires
T. S. Eliot: Collection of Poetry, Poems, and other Works (42 in total) with analysis and historical background… (2013) 6 exemplaires
From Poe to Valery 6 exemplaires
Letters (5 vols.) 5 exemplaires
Early Poetical Works 5 exemplaires
Delphi Poetical Works of T. S. Eliot (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 45) (2014) 5 exemplaires
Utvalgte essays 4 exemplaires
The Waste Land and Other Poems Read by T. S. Eliot 4 exemplaires
Poèmes, 1910-1930 4 exemplaires
Valik esseid 4 exemplaires
The music of poetry; the third W. P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 24th February 1942 (1942) 4 exemplaires
Le opere: Poesia, prosa, teatro 3 exemplaires
The Collected Works of T.S. Eliot (featuring the Waste Land, 2 collections of poetry, and more, all with an active… 3 exemplaires
Vad är en klassiker? och andra essayer 3 exemplaires
Om poesi : essayer 3 exemplaires
T. S. Eliot : British Poets Of Our Time 3 exemplaires
La terra desolata. Frammento di un agone. Marcia trionfale = The waste land. Fragment of an agon. Triumphal march 2 exemplaires
Ensaios 2 exemplaires
Essays I und II. 2 Bde. 2 exemplaires
Poesías completas. Volumen I: Poesía, 1909-1962 (Visor de Poesía Maior) (Spanish Edition) (2017) 2 exemplaires
The Waste Land and other poems 2 exemplaires
Religious drama: mediaeval and modern 2 exemplaires
The cantos of Ezra Pound : some testimonies 2 exemplaires
TheWaste Land — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Waste Land, The 2 exemplaires
Teatro 2 exemplaires
Tradition and the Individual Talent 2 exemplaires
The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot 2 exemplaires
Antologia Poética 2 exemplaires
Three modern poets : selections from Gerard Manly Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot 2 exemplaires
"Ulysses, Order, and Myth" 2 exemplaires
Essays 2 (Literaturkritik) [= T.S. Eliot, Werke II; zugleich: suhrkamp taschenbuch (st), Band 1562] 2 exemplaires
Ausgewählte Gedichte [engl.-dt.] 2 exemplaires
T. S. Eliot (Arco Literary Critiques) 2 exemplaires
Thoughts after Lambeth 2 exemplaires
Poésie. Premiers poèmes. La Terre vaine, Les Hommes creux. Mercredi des cendres. Poèmes d'Ariel. Quatre quatuors.… 2 exemplaires
Ausgewählte Essays 1917-1947 2 exemplaires
Edebiyat üzerine düşünceler 2 exemplaires
Poetry by T.S. Eliot 2 exemplaires
Il sermone del fuoco 2 exemplaires
Poetry by T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the Waste Land, Four Quartetes, the Love Song of J. Alfred… (2010) 2 exemplaires
O tempo (ir)redimível 1 exemplaire
Preludes (2nd edition) 1 exemplaire
“La Figlia Che Piange” 1 exemplaire
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” 1 exemplaire
The Waste Land: a facsimile & transcript of the original drags including the annotations of Ezra Pound 1 exemplaire
The Waste Land and Other Poems 1 exemplaire
The Use Of Poetry And The Use Of Criticism 1 exemplaire
The Family Reunion a Play 1 exemplaire
Rare Antique Film Murder In The Cathedral T.S. Eliot Play 1st Edition First Print Nobel Prize 1 exemplaire
T.S. Eliot reading 'The waste land' and other poems 1 exemplaire
Der Vers. 1 exemplaire
Criticar al crítico y otros escritos 1 exemplaire
The 100 Greatest Books of All Time 1 exemplaire
The Coctail Party 1 exemplaire
The Hollow Man 1 exemplaire
Great Poets of the 20th Century: T.S. Eliot 1 exemplaire
Dikter i urval 1 exemplaire
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” 1 exemplaire
La Tierra Baldía. Y Prufrock Y Otras Observaciones (LUMEN) de T.S. ELIOT (15 ene 2015) Tapa dura 1 exemplaire
The Sacred Wood (Mint Editions (Nonfiction Narratives: Essays, Speeches and Full-Length Work)) 1 exemplaire
Ther Elder Statesman 1 exemplaire
“East Coker” 1 exemplaire
The Sacred Wood Essays on Poetry and Criticism 1 exemplaire
Portrait of a Lady [poem] 1 exemplaire
艾略特詩選 1: 1909-1922荒原及其他詩作 Collected Poems, 1909-1962 1 exemplaire
La terra desolata - Quattro quadretti 1 exemplaire
The waste land and other poems 1 exemplaire
Η έρημη χώρα. Προύφροκ. Οι κούφιοι άνθρωποι 1 exemplaire
Water 1 exemplaire
tin house 1 exemplaire
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and Other Poems 1 exemplaire
TOKA E SHKRETE E MERKURA E PERHIME KATEER KUARTET 1 exemplaire
T S Eliot Collected Plays 1 exemplaire
Four Quartets - a selection of critical essays 1 exemplaire
A Terra Desolada 1 exemplaire
ELIOTER KABITA 1 exemplaire
Meutre Dans La Cathedrale Quatre Quatuors Thomas Stearns Eliot Editions Rombaldi (1963) 1 exemplaire
The Naming of Cats [poem] 1 exemplaire
Válogatott versek 1 exemplaire
A note on the verse of John Milton 1 exemplaire
Macskák könyve 1 exemplaire
Poemas 1 exemplaire
Poezi të zgjedhura 1 exemplaire
Pavasaris žiemos vidury: eilėraščiai ir poemos 1 exemplaire
Pesmi 1 exemplaire
Eliot Thomas Stearns 1 exemplaire
Dryden: A Collection of Critical Essays 1 exemplaire
The Criterion. A quarterly review. [Edited by T. S. Eliot.] vol. 1-3. no. 1-12. Oct. 1922-July 1925 1 exemplaire
Religione e letteratura 1 exemplaire
Tre Poesie Di T.S. Eliot. 1 exemplaire
Dante / Blake / Baudelaire / Tri glasa poezije 1 exemplaire
T. S. Eliot special issue : including "Scylla and Charybdis", a hitherto unpublished lecture 1 exemplaire
T.S. Eliot: Best 3 Poems (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, and The Waste Land) (2012) 1 exemplaire
The Criterion 1 exemplaire
T S Eliot: A Study of his Writing by Several Hands. 1 exemplaire
Charles Whibely : a memoir 1 exemplaire
The Criterion : quarterly review 1 exemplaire
Old Possum's book of practical cats: Calendar for 1991, with excerpts from the poems (1990) 1 exemplaire
T. S. Eliot - Poems 1 exemplaire
T.S Eliot the Complete Works 1 exemplaire
The Complete Poems And Essays 1 exemplaire
Opere... Poesie 1 exemplaire
Pensees 1 exemplaire
T.S. Eliot collection 1 exemplaire
T. S. Eliot reading his own poems [sound recording] 1 exemplaire
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Works [Squid Ink Classics Edition] (2015) 1 exemplaire
Whispers of Immortality [poem] 1 exemplaire
Gerontion [poem] 1 exemplaire
The Hippopotamus [poem] 1 exemplaire
Cuatro cuartetos: Precedido por La roca y Asesinato en la Catedral (Spanish Edition) (2016) 1 exemplaire
Retrato de una dama y otros poemas 1 exemplaire
The complete prose of T.S. Eliot. Volume 3, Literature, politics, belief, 1927-1929 (2014) 1 exemplaire
The Early Works of T.S. Eliot (Featuring “The Waste Land” & "J Alfred Prufrock") (2012) 1 exemplaire
Words for music 1 exemplaire
Two poems 1 exemplaire
Growlers Last Stand 1 exemplaire
John Dryden : the poet, the dramatist, the critic 1 exemplaire
The undergraduate poems of T. S. Eliot : published while he was at college in The Harvard Advocate 1 exemplaire
Çorak Ülke - Cevap Çapan 1 exemplaire
Denemeler 1 exemplaire
Izabrane pesme 1 exemplaire
Was ist ein Klassiker? 1 exemplaire
Les Hommes creux 1 exemplaire
A essência da poesia 1 exemplaire
A group of four titles. 1 exemplaire
T.S. Eliot, Tétralogie (Quatre Quatuors) 1 exemplaire
Sweeney Among the Nightingales [poem] 1 exemplaire
Verse of John Milton 1 exemplaire
The Letters of T.S. Elliot 1 exemplaire
Memoir 1 exemplaire
Poemas 1910-1930 1 exemplaire
Versek Drámák Macskák könyve 1 exemplaire
Examen crítico de T.S. Eliot "Tierra baldía" 1 exemplaire
SOBRE LA POESIA Y LOS POETAS 1 exemplaire
CATS....Broadway Musical Production (Cats Program Book...1981 , The Cast of Cats...1981 , Cats Playbill... Forrest… (1981) 1 exemplaire
Crime na catedral ; Quatro quartetos 1 exemplaire
Stücke 1 exemplaire
Hamlet and His Problems 1 exemplaire
Poesia de T S ELIOT - TEXTO INTEGRAL 1 exemplaire
Two Poems of Early Youth 1 exemplaire
Waste Land, The (abridged) 1 exemplaire
The Rock 1 exemplaire
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A Choice of Kipling's Verse made by T. S. Eliot with an essay on Rudyard Kipling (1941) — Directeur de publication — 228 exemplaires
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The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributeur — 99 exemplaires
Permanent Things: Toward the Recovery of a More Human Scale at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Contributeur — 88 exemplaires
Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1979) — Contributeur — 72 exemplaires
Nine Great Plays: From Aeschylus to Eliot (Revised Edition) (1950) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
The question of Henry James: a collection of critical essays (1945) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 18 exemplaires
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Seneca: His Tenne Tragedies Translated into English. Edited by Thomas Newton, introduction by T. S. Eliot. (1966) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 9 exemplaires
Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection: Cats / Jesus Christ Superstar / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat / The… (2004) — quelques éditions — 7 exemplaires
Oskar Kokoschka, Städteportraits : Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien in Zusammenarbeit mit der Oskar… (1986) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
American poets, an anthology of contemporary verse — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Poems Of Tennyson With An Introduction By T.S. Eliot (1938) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 4 exemplaires
Wege zu Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro). Drei Jahrzehnte Begegnungen in Dichtung u. Wissenschaft (1976) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
William Shakespeare: Coriolanus [theatre programme] — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1): Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy (2020) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns
- Autre(s) nom(s)
- Eliot, Tom
Old Possum
Conybeare, Charles Augustus
Grimble, Reverend Charles James
Schwartz, Muriel A.
Spence, J. A. D. (tout afficher 8)
Trundlett, Helen B.
Krutzch, Gus - Date de naissance
- 1888-09-26
- Date de décès
- 1965-01-04
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Michael's Church, East Coker, Somerset, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA (birth)
UK (naturalized) - Lieu de naissance
- St. Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
- Lieu du décès
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- Emphysema
- Lieux de résidence
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France
London, England, UK - Études
- Harvard University (BA ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1909)
Harvard University (MA ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1910)
Sorbonne, Paris, France
University of Oxford (Merton College) - Professions
- poet
literary critic
playwright
publisher
editor
banker (tout afficher 8)
professor
essayist / reviewer - Relations
- Eliot, Valerie née Fletcher (second wife)
Eliot, William Greenleaf (grandfather)
Eliot, Charlotte (mother)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Aiken, Conrad (friend)
Russell, Bertrand (friend) (tout afficher 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 - Organisations
- 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) (tout afficher 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) - Prix et distinctions
- Premi Nobel de Literatura, 1948
Membres
Discussions
LE: The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot à Folio Society Devotees (Septembre 19)
Who is your favorite poet? à Young Fogey's Fire Place (Avril 29)
Jeremy Irons reads 'The Naming of Cats' à Cats, books, life is good. (Janvier 2016)
Critiques
Listes
Plays I Like (1)
Existentialism (1)
AP Lit (1)
Cats in Fiction (1)
Favourite Poems (1)
1940s (1)
Art of Reading (1)
Favourite Books (1)
2005-2010 (1)
Books I Loved (1)
1930s (2)
Five star books (2)
Tom's Bookstore (6)
Poetry Corner (6)
Modernism (9)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 416
- Aussi par
- 124
- Membres
- 41,438
- Popularité
- #421
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 411
- ISBN
- 884
- Langues
- 26
- Favoris
- 275
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> RÉSUMÉ. — La spirale ascendante des morts et des renaissances par lesquelles l'âme humaine s'élève vers la transcendance traverse comme un fil d'Ariane ces quatre poèmes de Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965). géant de la littérature anglo-américaine du 20e siècle et prix Nobel de littérature en 1948.
La biographie de T.S. Eliot, né à Saint-Louis, Missouri, en 1888 et naturalisé britannique en 1927, trace elle-même une spire géographique puisque son ancêtre Andrew Eliott avait quitté East Coker, village d'Angleterre, pour l'Amérique en 1669 ; or c'est à East Coker, dans une chapelle dédiée à Saint Michel, que reposent aujourd'hui les cendres du poète sous une plaque ou est gravée cette épitaphe : 'In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning' (En mon commencement est ma fin, en ma fin mon commencement).
La traduction connaît aussi ses cycles et, comme tous les trésors du patrimoine musical de l'humanité, la tétralogie poétique qui constitue le pinacle de l'oeuvre de TS. Eliot et dont la dimension musicale se reflète dans le titre Quatre quatuors méritait et méritera toujours de nouvelles interprétations.
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