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T. S. Eliot's Christmas poems : an essay in writing-as-reading and other "impossible unions"
- Title
- T. S. Eliot's Christmas poems : an essay in writing-as-reading and other "impossible unions" / G. Douglas Atkins, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Kansas, USA.
- Author
- Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 93 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Here G. Douglas Atkins presents T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as dramatizations of the meaning and significance of Christmas: Journey of the Magi, A Song for Simeon, Animula, Marina, Triumphal March, and The Cultivation of Christmas Trees. Commissioned to commemorate the season, these short poems, of around 40 lines each, considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation. In commentary with a narrative drive rhyming with the poems' own progress, Atkins brings the reader along on a "journey toward understanding," to the ultimate Mystery. The fresh, new readings demonstrate the artistic achievement of these remarkable poems"--
- Series Statement
- Palgrave pivot
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave pivot.
- Alternative Title
- Thomas Stearns Eliot's Christmas poems
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-89) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Challenging Critical Orthodoxies, Confronting Binary Oppositions: The Commentator par lui-même -- 2. The Gift Half Understood, or Eliot's Ariel Poems: Beyond the Old Dispensation -- 3. Triumphal March: The Problem Lies in Our Perceiving -- 4. The Cultivation of Christmas Trees: Through the Eyes of Children (and the Child-like) -- 5. Journey of the Magi: A Fable of Commentary: With a Second Coming to the Inexhaustible -- 6. Animula: What the Simple Soul Knows, or "Living first in the silence after the viaticum" -- 7. A Song for Simeon: The Difference the Letter Makes: Prayer, Self-Criticism, Validity -- 8. Marina: "Living to live in a world of time beyond me": Recognizing, Perceiving, and Understanding.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-4906
- ISBN
- 9781137485700 (hardcover)
- 1137485701 (hardcover)
- 9781137479150 (EPUB) (canceled/invalid)
- 1137479159 (EPUB) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781137479129 (PDF) (canceled/invalid)
- 1137479124 (PDF) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014030394
- OCLC
- 885092698
- Author
- Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943- author.
- Title
- T. S. Eliot's Christmas poems : an essay in writing-as-reading and other "impossible unions" / G. Douglas Atkins, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Kansas, USA.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave pivotPalgrave pivot.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-89) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-4906