Selected essays

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For this volume Eliot gathered together his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917, when he became assistant-editor of The Egoist. He described it as a record of his interests and opinions.

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In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: ‘For myself this book is a kind of historical record of my interests and opinions.’ The text includes some of his most important criticism, especially parts of The Sacred Wood, Homage to John Dryden, the essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, For Lancelot Andrewes and Essays Ancient and Modern.

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Weight 350 g
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.6 × 3.3 cm
Author

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

536

Language

English

Edition

3rd Edition

Dewey

824.912 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K