T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism

by Richard Shusterman and Richard M. Shusterman

T.S. Eliot, no less a distinguished as a critic than as a poet, began as a student of philosophy. As a young man he planned to take up philosophy as a career, and his later critical theory was deeply influenced by his philosophical outlook. This book, written by a professional philosopher trained in the analytic tradition, is the first philosophically rigorous and systematic account of Eliot's views and development. Tracing this devolpment against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231067429
• ISBN13: 9780231067423
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.