Results for: books tagged ‘Essays & Prose’
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture: T. S. Eliot
'The term culture . . . includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog ... More
Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot: T. S. Eliot
'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings, some of them ... More
Complete Prose of Marianne Moore: Marianne Moore
The Use of Poetry: T. S. Eliot
Government of the Tongue: Seamus Heaney
The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of ... More
Letters to Olga: Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel is one of the most important European writers of our time. In 1979 he was sentenced to four and a half years of hard labour for his involvement ... More
The Violent Effigy: John Carey
An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens’s imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens’s work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, ... More
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Sweeney's Flight: Seamus Heaney
Inspired by Seamus Heaney's poems, and notably by his version of the medieval Irish saga Buile Suibhne, the American photographer Rachel Giese has produced a stunning portfolio of pictures of ... More
Open Letters: Selected Prose: Vaclav Havel
Virtually everything Vaclav Havel has ever written has acquired a new resonance, whether ironic, artistic, philosophical or political, since he became President of his country in 1989. This selection of ... More
The Intellectuals and the Masses: John Carey
Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity ... More
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