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The Connell Guide to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Advanced Study Guide)
| Title | The Connell Guide to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Advanced Study Guide) |
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| Date | 2024-10-07 01:08:02 |
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Desciption
All you need to know about T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise and beautifully designed to help students understand, and enjoy, great works of literature. They are perfect for coursework, revision and exam preparation. Connell Guides are also great reads themselves scholarly, yet approachable and entertaining.Seamus Perry's elegant book is a critical tour-de-force. Perry's distinction as a reader of poetry pervades his many fine phrases and sentences as he brings out the amplitude of the poem s ambition with clarity, wit and nuance. This is a book to go to first, and many times thereafter, in thinking about and responding to Eliot s masterpiece of troubling but suggestive implication, shifting voices, and intricately orchestrated lyricism. --Michael O Neill, Professor of English, Durham University Read more
Review
Editorial Reviews About the Author Seamus Perry is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Lecturer in the English Faculty of the University of Oxford. He has published books, articles, and reviews about a wide range of English poets, including Coleridge, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Eliot, and Auden, and he has edited selections from Coleridge's notebooks and his literary criticism. He is, with Christopher Ricks, editor of the Oxford journal Essays in Criticism.
