Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art by Ronald Schuchard (English)

Description: Eliot's Dark Angel by Ronald Schuchard Schuchards critical study shows how Eliots personal voice works through the sordid, the bawdy, the blasphemous and the horrific to create a moral world and the only theory of moral criticism in English literature. The book also erodes conventional attitudes toward Eliots intellectual and spiritual development. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Schuchards critical study draws upon previously unpublished and uncollected materials in showing how Eliots personal voice works through the sordid, the bawdy, the blasphemous, and the horrific to create a unique moral world and the only theory of moral criticism in English literature. The book also erodes conventional attitudes toward Eliots intellectual and spiritual development, showing how early and consistently his classical and religious sensibilitymanifests itself in his poetry and criticism. The book examines his reading, his teaching, his bawdy poems, and his life-long attraction to music halls and other modes of popular culture to show the complexrelation between intellectual biography and art. Notes Winner of the 1999 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Criticism and the 2000 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Critical Studies Award Author Biography Ronald Schuchard is at Emory University. Review "[The book] will be essential reading for professional scholars and critics writing about Eliot for some time to come....A treasure trove of information about Eliots life and art....Empirical discoveries are rare indeed in literary criticism...Schuchards discovery and publication of these documents revealed how much the young Eliots famous critical pronouncements and poetic allusions owed to his routine class preparations....The definitive statement onEliots brief teaching career and its crucial relation to his development as a writer....Reconstructs Eliots pop-cultural frame of reference in the 1910s and 20s. His love of the latest joke, the latestdance craze, and the latest outrage on middle-class sensibilities perpetrated by one visiting Continental avant-gardist or another enabled Eliot to tune his poetry to the zeitgeist, even as his private yearnings toward a medieval Christian faith tormented him."--Review"A work of literary criticism that actually lives up to the puffs on the dust jacket: `Beautifully written and exhaustively researched...it is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eliot."--Virginia Quarterly Review"What a book! Ronald Schuchard...has the audacity to write with uncompromising clarity, skill and grace....Congratulate him, for in Eliots Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art Schuchard has produced the best critical work on T.S. Eliot I have read in over a decade, and certainly one of the top half dozen in the behemoth canon of critical sorties into Eliot terrain....It is a milestone in Eliot criticism."--Christianity and Literature"The most unique aspect of this excellent work is Schuchards inclusion of previously unpublished materials reflecting T.S. Eliots teaching activity--particularly the valuable, detailed syllabi for several courses he taught towards the end of World War I...."--Choice"[Schuchard] elucidates those moments in which he finds that the life presses with particular insistence upon the poems. The method is justified by the perceptions at which it arrives.... The fourth [chapter], one of the most original, argues that Eliots comic sense, fortified by Baudelaires On the Essence of Laughter, expressed itself in a respect for farce, burlesque, caricature, and obscenity.... This superb essay leads to another just as good, a studyof Eliots feeling for the art of the music hall, Marie Lloyd and her peers, and the ballet of Diaghilev and Massine as inspirations toward a possible poetic theater.... The book ends...with a splendidanalysis of St. John of the Cross, the English mystical writers, and--crucially--the centrality of George Herbert in Eliots later poetry and criticism.... I recommend to your attention [Eliots Dark Angel]."--Denis Donoghue, The Southern Review"More than any study of Eliot I know, Schuchards book helps us to understand the foundations of Eliots conservatism in his intellectual and emotional development, in its pre-Christian and Christian formulations, and in the role of the personal in his work set against his impersonal theory of art."--George S. Lensing, American Literature"It is hard to imagine anyone in the future reading Ash Wednesday without Schuchards chapter ready to hand. The same goes for the Sweeney quatrains,...to say nothing of the abortive play, Sweeney Agonistes."--T.S. Eliot Society Newsletter"Ron Schuchard has been one of Eliots most sensitive and perceptive critics over the past twenty-five years, so it was with eager anticipation that I picked up a volume gathering together much of that work. Eliots Dark Angel does not disappoint. In this major collection, Schuchard lays out in exhaustive detail a comprehensive vision of modernisms most influential voice that is rooted in Eliots life.... A virtual paradigm of the rich potentialitiesinherent in biographically oriented criticism, Eliots Dark Angel goes a long way toward not only highlighting the intersections of life and art but helping reinvigorate the presence of the life in the art ofthis major modernist artist."--Richard Badenhausen, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920"[The book] will be essential reading for professional scholars and critics writing about Eliot for some time to come....A treasure trove of information about Eliots life and art....Empirical discoveries are rare indeed in literary criticism...Schuchards discovery and publication of these documents revealed how much the young Eliots famous critical pronouncements and poetic allusions owed to his routine class preparations....The definitive statement onEliots brief teaching career and its crucial relation to his development as a writer....Reconstructs Eliots pop-cultural frame of reference in the 1910s and 20s. His love of the latest joke, the latestdance craze, and the latest outrage on middle-class sensibilities perpetrated by one visiting Continental avant-gardist or another enabled Eliot to tune his poetry to the zeitgeist, even as his private yearnings toward a medieval Christian faith tormented him."--Review"Considering the motives and methods of Eliot scholarship over the past thirty years, Schuchards book is all the more remarkable: he has permanently altered the map of Eliot scholarship by ransoming the received accounts from the ideologies and returning to us a surprisingly personal and poignently human poet."--MODERNISM/modernity"A work of literary criticism that actually lives up to the puffs on the dust jacket: `Beautifully written and exhaustively researched...it is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eliot."--Virginia Quarterly Review"What a book! Ronald Schuchard...has the audacity to write with uncompromising clarity, skill and grace....Congratulate him, for in Eliots Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art Schuchard has produced the best critical work on T.S. Eliot I have read in over a decade, and certainly one of the top half dozen in the behemoth canon of critical sorties into Eliot terrain....It is a milestone in Eliot criticism."--Christianity and Literature"The most unique aspect of this excellent work is Schuchards inclusion of previously unpublished materials reflecting T.S. Eliots teaching activity--particularly the valuable, detailed syllabi for several courses he taught towards the end of World War I...."--Choice"[Schuchard] elucidates those moments in which he finds that the life presses with particular insistence upon the poems. The method is justified by the perceptions at which it arrives.... The fourth [chapter], one of the most original, argues that Eliots comic sense, fortified by Baudelaires On the Essence of Laughter, expressed itself in a respect for farce, burlesque, caricature, and obscenity.... This superb essay leads to another just as good, a studyof Eliots feeling for the art of the music hall, Marie Lloyd and her peers, and the ballet of Diaghilev and Massine as inspirations toward a possible poetic theater.... The book ends...with a splendidanalysis of St. John of the Cross, the English mystical writers, and--crucially--the centrality of George Herbert in Eliots later poetry and criticism.... I recommend to your attention [Eliots Dark Angel]."--Denis Donoghue, The Southern Review"More than any study of Eliot I know, Schuchards book helps us to understand the foundations of Eliots conservatism in his intellectual and emotional development, in its pre-Christian and Christian formulations, and in the role of the personal in his work set against his impersonal theory of art."--George S. Lensing, American Literature"It is hard to imagine anyone in the future reading Ash Wednesday without Schuchards chapter ready to hand. The same goes for the Sweeney quatrains,...to say nothing of the abortive play, Sweeney Agonistes."--T.S. Eliot Society Newsletter"Ron Schuchard has been one of Eliots most sensitive and perceptive critics over the past twenty-five years, so it was with eager anticipation that I picked up a volume gathering together much of that work. Eliots Dark Angel does not disappoint. In this major collection, Schuchard lays out in exhaustive detail a comprehensive vision of modernisms most influential voice that is rooted in Eliots life.... A virtual paradigm of the rich potentialitiesinherent in biographically oriented criticism, Eliots Dark Angel goes a long way toward not only highlighting the intersections of life and art but helping reinvigorate the presence of the life in the art ofthis major modernist artist."--Richard Badenhausen, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 Promotional Winner of the 1999 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Criticism and the 2000 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Critical Studies Award Prizes Winner of Winner of the 1999 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Criticism and the 2000 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Critical Studies Award. Long Description Schuchards critical study draws upon previously unpublished and uncollected materials in showing how Eliots personal voice works through the sordid, the bawdy, the blasphemous, and the horrific to create a unique moral world and the only theory of moral criticism in English literature. The book also erodes conventional attitudes toward Eliots intellectual and spiritual development, showing how early and consistently his classical and religious sensibilitymanifests itself in his poetry and criticism. The book examines his reading, his teaching, his bawdy poems, and his life-long attraction to music halls and other modes of popular culture to show the complex relation between intellectual biography and art. Review Text "[The book] will be essential reading for professional scholars and critics writing about Eliot for some time to come....A treasure trove of information about Eliots life and art....Empirical discoveries are rare indeed in literary criticism...Schuchards discovery and publication of these documents revealed how much the young Eliots famous critical pronouncements and poetic allusions owed to his routine class preparations....The definitive statement onEliots brief teaching career and its crucial relation to his development as a writer....Reconstructs Eliots pop-cultural frame of reference in the 1910s and 20s. His love of the latest joke, the latest dance craze, and the latest outrage on middle-class sensibilities perpetrated by one visitingContinental avant-gardist or another enabled Eliot to tune his poetry to the zeitgeist, even as his private yearnings toward a medieval Christian faith tormented him."--Review"A work of literary criticism that actually lives up to the puffs on the dust jacket: `Beautifully written and exhaustively researched...it is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eliot."--Virginia Quarterly Review"What a book! Ronald Schuchard...has the audacity to write with uncompromising clarity, skill and grace....Congratulate him, for in Eliots Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art Schuchard has produced the best critical work on T.S. Eliot I have read in over a decade, and certainly one of the top half dozen in the behemoth canon of critical sorties into Eliot terrain....It is a milestone in Eliot criticism."--Christianity and Literature"The most unique aspect of this excellent work is Schuchards inclusion of previously unpublished materials reflecting T.S. Eliots teaching activity--particularly the valuable, detailed syllabi for several courses he taught towards the end of World War I...."--Choice"[Schuchard] elucidates those moments in which he finds that the life presses with particular insistence upon the poems. The method is justified by the perceptions at which it arrives.... The fourth [chapter], one of the most original, argues that Eliots comic sense, fortified by Baudelaires On the Essence of Laughter, expressed itself in a respect for farce, burlesque, caricature, and obscenity.... This superb essay leads to another just as good, a studyof Eliots feeling for the art of the music hall, Marie Lloyd and her peers, and the ballet of Diaghilev and Massine as inspirations toward a possible poetic theater.... The book ends...with a splendid analysis of St. John of the Cross, the English mystical writers, and--crucially--the centrality ofGeorge Herbert in Eliots later poetry and criticism.... I recommend to your attention [Eliots Dark Angel]."--Denis Donoghue, The Southern Review"More than any study of Eliot I know, Schuchards book helps us to understand the foundations of Eliots conservatism in his intellectual and emotional development, in its pre-Christian and Christian formulations, and in the role of the personal in his work set against his impersonal theory of art."--George S. Lensing, American Literature"It is hard to imagine anyone in the future reading Ash Wednesday without Schuchards chapter ready to hand. The same goes for the Sweeney quatrains,...to say nothing of the abortive play, Sweeney Agonistes."--T.S. Eliot Society Newsletter"Ron Schuchard has been one of Eliots most sensitive and perceptive critics over the past twenty-five years, so it was with eager anticipation that I picked up a volume gathering together much of that work. Eliots Dark Angel does not disappoint. In this major collection, Schuchard lays out in exhaustive detail a comprehensive vision of modernisms most influential voice that is rooted in Eliots life.... A virtual paradigm of the rich potentialitiesinherent in biographically oriented criticism, Eliots Dark Angel goes a long way toward not only highlighting the intersections of life and art but helping reinvigorate the presence of the life in the art of this major modernist artist."--Richard Badenhausen, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920"[The book] will be essential reading for professional scholars and critics writing about Eliot for some time to come....A treasure trove of information about Eliots life and art....Empirical discoveries are rare indeed in literary criticism...Schuchards discovery and publication of these documents revealed how much the young Eliots famous critical pronouncements and poetic allusions owed to his routine class preparations....The definitive statement onEliots brief teaching career and its crucial relation to his development as a writer....Reconstructs Eliots pop-cultural frame of reference in the 1910s and 20s. His love of the latest joke, the latest dance craze, and the latest outrage on middle-class sensibilities perpetrated by one visitingContinental avant-gardist or another enabled Eliot to tune his poetry to the zeitgeist, even as his private yearnings toward a medieval Christian faith tormented him."--Review"Considering the motives and methods of Eliot scholarship over the past thirty years, Schuchards book is all the more remarkable: he has permanently altered the map of Eliot scholarship by ransoming the received accounts from the ideologies and returning to us a surprisingly personal and poignently human poet."--MODERNISM/modernity"A work of literary criticism that actually lives up to the puffs on the dust jacket: `Beautifully written and exhaustively researched...it is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eliot."--Virginia Quarterly Review"What a book! Ronald Schuchard...has the audacity to write with uncompromising clarity, skill and grace....Congratulate him, for in Eliots Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art Schuchard has produced the best critical work on T.S. Eliot I have read in over a decade, and certainly one of the top half dozen in the behemoth canon of critical sorties into Eliot terrain....It is a milestone in Eliot criticism."--Christianity and Literature"The most unique aspect of this excellent work is Schuchards inclusion of previously unpublished materials reflecting T.S. Eliots teaching activity--particularly the valuable, detailed syllabi for several courses he taught towards the end of World War I...."--Choice"[Schuchard] elucidates those moments in which he finds that the life presses with particular insistence upon the poems. The method is justified by the perceptions at which it arrives.... The fourth [chapter], one of the most original, argues that Eliots comic sense, fortified by Baudelaires On the Essence of Laughter, expressed itself in a respect for farce, burlesque, caricature, and obscenity.... This superb essay leads to another just as good, a studyof Eliots feeling for the art of the music hall, Marie Lloyd and her peers, and the ballet of Diaghilev and Massine as inspirations toward a possible poetic theater.... The book ends...with a splendid analysis of St. John of the Cross, the English mystical writers, and--crucially--the centrality ofGeorge Herbert in Eliots later poetry and criticism.... I recommend to your attention [Eliots Dark Angel]."--Denis Donoghue, The Southern Review"More than any study of Eliot I know, Schuchards book helps us to understand the foundations of Eliots conservatism in his intellectual and emotional development, in its pre-Christian and Christian formulations, and in the role of the personal in his work set against his impersonal theory of art."--George S. Lensing, American Literature"It is hard to imagine anyone in the future reading Ash Wednesday without Schuchards chapter ready to hand. The same goes for the Sweeney quatrains,...to say nothing of the abortive play, Sweeney Agonistes."--T.S. Eliot Society Newsletter"Ron Schuchard has been one of Eliots most sensitive and perceptive critics over the past twenty-five years, so it was with eager anticipation that I picked up a volume gathering together much of that work. Eliots Dark Angel does not disappoint. In this major collection, Schuchard lays out in exhaustive detail a comprehensive vision of modernisms most influential voice that is rooted in Eliots life.... A virtual paradigm of the rich potentialitiesinherent in biographically oriented criticism, Eliots Dark Angel goes a long way toward not only highlighting the intersections of life and art but helping reinvigorate the presence of the life in the art of this major modernist artist."--Richard Badenhausen, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 Review Quote "What a book! Ronald Schuchard...has the audacity to write with uncompromising clarity, skill and grace....Congratulate him, for in Eliots Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art Schuchard has produced the best critical work on T.S. Eliot I have read in over a decade, and certainly one ofthe top half dozen in the behemoth canon of critical sorties into Eliot terrain....It is a milestone in Eliot criticism."--Christianity and Literature Details ISBN0195147022 Language English ISBN-10 0195147022 ISBN-13 9780195147025 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 821.912 Year 2001 Author Ronald Schuchard Subtitle Intersections of Life and Art Short Title ELIOTS DARK ANGEL REV/E Edition Description Revised Position Emeritus Professor of Statistics Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Emeritus Professor of Statistics, University of Essex UK Release Date 2001-08-02 AU Release Date 2001-08-02 NZ Release Date 2001-08-02 US Release Date 2001-08-02 Translator Jacques des Cloizeaux Edited by Nicola Munaro Birth 1939 Death 1979 Qualifications MD, FACP Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 2001-08-02 Alternative 9780195104172 Illustrations 17 halftones Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 304 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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