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Becoming T.S. Eliot : The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare by Jayme Stayer (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-101421441047
ISBN-139781421441047
eBay Product ID (ePID)21050385297
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
Publication NameBecoming T.S. Eliot : the Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
SubjectRhetoric, Literary, Semiotics & Theory
TypeTextbook
AuthorJayme Stayer
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-045436
Reviews"The major critical breakthrough of Becoming T. S. Eliot comes through Stayer's masterful rhetorical analysis of Inventions of the March Hare . Stayer meticulously delineates how Eliot's botched rhetorical experiments between 1909 and 1911 negatively affected his desired clarity of meaning before he reached poetic maturation in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.' This highly innovative and compelling study goes on the permanent must list for students of Eliot and the creative development of other modernist poets."?Ronald Schuchard, general editor of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition "This indispensable companion to Eliot's early poetry analyzes his transformation from a schoolboy seeking his elders' approval to a truth-telling iconoclast and the poet of modern suffering. Stayer's deeply researched and comprehensive study is essential for understanding how Eliot wrote Prufrock and Other Observations and why these poems succeed."?Frances Dickey, author of The Modern Portrait Poem: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound "Inspiringly thorough and well-researched, Becoming T. S. Eliot is argued with force, finesse, and great eloquence. A full-scale reexamination of the poems in the poet's March Hare notebook, the book reveals Eliot experimenting with how to fashion both an audience and a speaker for his unique poetic voice. Stayer's prose is jaunty, elegant, and incredibly readable. This is the guide to Eliot's early poems for which we've been waiting."?Anthony Cuda, author of The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann "Stayer's sharpened and complete chronology of Eliot's earliest writings, as well as his analysis of their audience, will be helpful to readers, as will the impressive way he sheds new light on a neglected poem, 'The Engine.'"?Lyndall Gordon, author of Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal821/.912
Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Apprentice Alone in His Workshop: The Inventions Notebook 1. Indebted and Well-Bred: Literary Models and Authority in the Juvenilia 2. The Notebook, Begun: The Clash of Laforgue and Baudelaire in the Poems of November 1909 3. Clearing the Throat: The Poems of Early 1910 4. Raising the Voice: The Sequence Poems of Fall 1910 5. Trembling with Pathos: The Paris Poems of Late 1910 and Early 1911 6. The Short and Surprisingly Private Life of King Bolo: The Bawdy Poems and Their Audiences 7. "Prufrock," Abandoned: How the Poem Was Written, How It Was Received, and How It Works 8. Mumbling the Denouement: The Last and Undated Poems of the Notebook, late 1911-1915 Notes Work Cited Index
SynopsisHow did an ordinary, if intelligent, boy who wrote unremarkable poems become--with no help, and in record time--the author of one of the most significant and beloved poems of the twentieth century? T. S. Eliot's juvenilia show little inclination to question the social, cultural, religious, or domestic values he had inherited. How did a young man who wrote uninspired doggerel about wilting flowers transform himself--in a mere twenty months--into the author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? In Becoming T. S. Eliot , Jayme Stayer--praised by Christopher Ricks as a scholar who is "scrupulous in acknowledging the contingencies that will always preclude perfection"--explains this staggering accomplishment by tracing Eliot's artistic and intellectual development. Relying on archival research and original analysis, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Inventions of the March Hare , Eliot's youthful notebook, which was once thought lost but was rediscovered after Eliot's death. Stayer places Eliot's verses in the chronological order of their composition, teasing out the narratives of their making. Focusing on the period from 1909 to 1915, this incisive portrait of Eliot as a budding writer is as much a study of Eliot himself as it is a study of how a writer hones his voice., T. S. Eliots juvenilia were written by an adolescent who showed little inclination to question the social, cultural, religious, or domestic values he had inherited. By contrast, the poems of his early maturity were written by a roiling, divided self-enraged and poised, sarcastic and self-conscious, urbane and anguished. How did a young man who wrote uninspired doggerel about wilting flowers transform himself-in a mere twenty months-into the author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? In Becoming T. S. Eliot, Jayme Stayer explains this staggering accomplishment by tracing Eliots artistic and intellectual development. Relying on archival research and original analysis, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Inventions of the March Hare, Eliots youthful notebook, which was once thought lost but rediscovered after Eliots death. Stayer places Eliots verses in the chronological order of their composition, teasing out the narratives of their making. Using the tools of rhetoric, he shows how the earliest poems begin as garbled performances: the unsteady apprentice at first curses and coerces his audience into the shape he desired, wincing from fear at its hostile judgments. But triumphs soon appear as Eliot gains control of his materials, shifting with trademark ease between tonal registers, masterfully constructing a sympathetic audience, and broaching daring themes. Focusing on the period from 1909 to 1915, this incisive portrait of Eliot as a budding writer is as much a study of Eliot himself as it is a study of how a writer hones his voice. By the end of the notebook, Stayer demonstrates, the poems speakers are whispering-conspiratorially, hesitantly, in muted pain-into the listeners ear. With the workshop poems behind him as practice pieces, Eliot steps out onto the public stage with his best work, bearing the motifs and techniques that will define his maturity and giving birth to "T. S. Eliot," the poet and the man.
LC Classification NumberPS3509.L43Z8699 2021
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