托·斯·艾略特(1888—1965)是二十世紀英美文學*重要的詩人之一,同時也是一個有極大影響的文學批評家,是英美新批評派的開山鼻祖。他對于傳統(tǒng)的新闡釋具有劃時代的意義;他提出的“非個性化”理論和尋找“客觀對應物”的創(chuàng)作手法對現(xiàn)代西方文學批評和詩歌創(chuàng)作產(chǎn)生了巨大的影響。他的詩和一套文論引發(fā)了人們轟轟烈烈的討論與研究,至今余波未息。 本書是“劍橋文學名家研習系列”之一,書中對托·斯·艾略特的生平作了簡要的闡述。
		
	
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1  Life
  Early life, 1888-1914
  A bohemian life, 1915-1922
  Man of letters, 1923-1945
  The sage, 1945-1965
Chapter 2  Contexts
  Early influences
  France
  England
  Religion
  Philosophy
  Culture and society
  Romanticism and classicism
  A sense of the past
Chapter 3  Works
  Early poems
  "Portrait of a Lady"
  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
  "The Hollow Men"
  "Gerontion"
  Poems 1920
  The Waste Land
  The Ariel poems and Ash-Wednesday
  Plays
  Cultural criticism
  Four Quartets
  Reevaluation
Chapter 4  Critical reception
  Notes
  The works of T. S. Eliot
  Further reading
Index