Print version: Brooker, Jewel Spears T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2018 ISBN 9781421426525
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Logic and Longing in T. S. Eliot -- 1 The Debate between Body and Soul in Eliot’s Early Poetry -- 2 Eliot’s First Conversion: "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" and the 1913 Critique of Bergson -- 3 Eliot’s Debt to F. H. Bradley: Reality and Appearance in 1914 -- 4 The Poet and the Cave-Man: Making History in "Sweeney among the Nightingales" and The Waste Land -- 5 Individual Works and Organic Wholes: The Idealist Foundation of Eliot’s Criticism -- 6 Poetry and Despair: The Hollow Men and the End of Philosophy -- 7 Love and Ecstasy in Donne, Dante, and Andrewes -- 8 Elio t’s Second Conversion: Dogma without Dogmatism -- 9 An Exilic Triptych: The Waste Land, Ash-Wednesday, "Marina" -- 10 "Into our first world": Return and Recognition in Burnt Norton and Little Gidding -- 11 War and the Problem of Evil in the Wartime Quartets: Reason, Love, Poetry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination will revise received readings of his mind and art, as well as of literary modernism..