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Buy Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot (1972-07-30) by T. S. Eliot (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.Editions for Selected Essays: 0151803870 (Paperback published in 1950), (Kindle Edition published in 2014), 0571197469 (Paperback published in 1999), (Pa.Literary criticism from the Nobel Prize winner on subjects from Dante to Dickens.Some one said: “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. Celebrated poet and playwright T. S. Eliot was one of the twentieth century’s most influential literary critics. In Selected Essays, he compiled his most significant.
T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays (3rd edn., London, 1951) Hamlet the character has had an especial temptation for that most dangerous type of critic: the critic with a mind which is naturally of the creative order, but which through some weakness in creative power exercises itself in criticism instead.In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: 'For myself this book is a kind of historical record of my interests and opinions.' The text includes some of his most important criticism.
