Selected Essays

Overview: THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (1888-1965) was an American essayist, playwright, literary and social critic. He was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 and renounced his American citizenship. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." Cover 1 Title Page 5 Copyright 6 Dedication 7 Author's Note 9 Acknowledgments 11 CONTENTS 13 I 15 Tradition and the Individual Talent 17 The Function of Criticism 26 II 37 "Rhetoric" and Poetic Drama 39 A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry 45 Euripides and Professor Murray 60 Seneca in Elizabethan Translation 65 III 103 Four Elizabethan Dramatists 105 Christopher Marlowe 114 Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca 121 Hamlet and His Problems 135 Ben Jonson 141 Thomas Middleton 154 Thomas Heywood 163 Cyril Tourneur 173 John Ford 184 Philip Massinger 195 IV 211 Dante 213 V 253 The Metaphysical Poets 255 Andrew Marvell 265 John Dryden 278 William Blake 289 Swinburne as Poet 295 In Memoriam 300 VI 311 Lancelot Andrewes 313 John Bramhall 325 Thoughts After Lambeth 334 Religion and Literature 357 The "Pensées" of Pascal 369 VII 383 Baudelaire 385 Arnold and Pater 396 Francis Herbert Bradley 408 Marie Lloyd 419 Wilkie Collins and Dickens 423 The Humanism of Irving Babbitt 433 Second Thoughts About Humanism 443 Charles Whibley 453 Modern Education and the Classics 466