Becoming T. S. Eliot the rhetoric of voice and audience in Inventions of the March hare / Jayme Stayer.

Author/creator Stayer, Jayme author.
Format Book
PublicationBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date©2021
Descriptionxiv, 343 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: The Apprentice Alone in His Workshop: The Inventions Notebook -- Indebted and Well-Bred: Literary Models and Authority in the Juvenilia -- The Notebook, Begun: The Clash of Laforgue and Baudelaire in the Poems of November 1909 -- Clearing the Throat: The Poems of Early 1910 -- Raising the Voice: The Sequence Poems of Fall 1910 -- Trembling with Pathos: The Paris Poems of Late 1910 and Early 1911 -- The Short and Surprisingly Private Life of King Bolo: The Bawdy Poems and Their Audiences -- "Prufrock," Abandoned: How the Poem Was Written, How It Was Received, and How It Works -- Mumbling the Denouement: The Last and Undated Poems of the Notebook, Late 1911-1915 -- Appendix: Chronology of Eliot's Work: 1899-1915.
Abstract "This study offers a rhetorical analysis of how the young T. S. Eliot created a new voice and targeted a modern audience in the poems of his youthful notebook, published in 1996 as Inventions of the March Hare. By following Eliot's artistic development and intellectual maturation, the author explores, by chronological steps, how a young man who writes uninspired doggerel transformed himself-in twenty months-into the author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.""-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781421441054
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2020045436
ISBN9781421441030 hardcover ; acid-free paper
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ISBN1421441047 paperback ; acid-free paper
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