Eliot turns his penetrating gaze on such authors as Swinburne, Blake, Dante, and Ben Jonson in this collection of provocative essays. He also considers Hamlet and His Problems, The Possibility of Poetic Drama, and most significantly, Tradition and the Individual Talent.
In addition to all of the essays in The Sacred Wood, this volume includes four features that originally appeared in The Times Literary Supplement: Homage to John Dryden, Poets on Poetry, The Metaphysical Poets, and Andrew Marvell. Taken together, these pieces offer remarkable insights into Eliot's ideas on poetry and poets, the nature and role of literature and drama, and the function of criticism.
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