Results for: books tagged ‘Criticism’
The Film Sense: Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, born in Riga in 1898, first achieved world fame with his silent film, Potemkin in 1925. Although he only completed six films in his lifetime, he is ... More
The Use of Poetry: T. S. Eliot
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Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being: Ted Hughes
A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot: B. C. Southam
The Sacred Wood: T. S. Eliot
This seminal book, Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, appeared in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of his most influential early essays and ... More
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Surfing the Zeitgeist: Gilbert Adair
Surfing the Zeitgeist is a collection of essays by Britain's preeminent post-modernist. Confronted with a world in which too much is changing too fast, the attitude of most British critics ... More
Orchestral Performance: Christopher Adey
In some ways it is easy to conduct a professional orchestra. If your technique is ropey or your ear less than acute, the players can usually make up for it ... More
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: Neil Corcoran
Seamus Heaney's poetic career has been one of constant development and expansion, and his place among the world's greatest literary figures is universally acknowledged. When it first appeared in 1986, ... More
Early Auden: Edward Mendelson
This critical study of Auden's writings up to l939 has been much acclaimed. It is based on Professor Mendelson's exceptional gifts as a critic and expositor, and as Auden's friend ... More
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Watching: Tom Sutcliffe
In this collection of essays (which accompanied a BBC-TV series presented by the author), Thomas Sutcliffe looks past the dazzling surface of the movies at the ways in which they ... More
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