Author : Craig Raine
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447217594
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Book Synopsis In Defence of T. S. Eliot by : Craig Raine
Download or read book In Defence of T. S. Eliot written by Craig Raine and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His pieces, on the literary world and some of its most fascinating figures and classics, bear his hallmark of vitality and distinctive approach. Raine’s knowledge of the span of literary theory (and anecdote) and the incisiveness of his thinking uncover as far more contradictory and complex in their successes writers customarily held in reverence. The essays range from a powerful piece on the KGB’s literary archive to thoughts about tragedy in Kipling’s life, from Auden, Nabokov and Beckett to the state of health of Samuel Johnson’s testicles. This book celebrates the diversity of the world of books and Raine is a supremely entertaining and thought-provoking guide. ‘Raine pounces on writers lacking his own high degree of linguistic resolution and independence. The citizenly impulse behind these arresting critical interventions is usually commendable. One gets the impression of a man simmering in long silence, coming reluctantly to the boil because someone has to speak up’ Geoff Dyer, Guardian