ENGL 250W

The Poetry of T.S. Eliot

Focuses on the poetry of T.S. Eliot, one of the dominating figures of English and American literature for a substantial part of the twentieth century: In 1948 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and by 1950 his authority had reached a level that seemed comparable in English writing to that of figures like Johnson and Coleridge. Offers students the opportunity to analyze and discuss Eliot's poems. We will trace his poetic/aesthetic development from his early poems ("Prufrock" et al.) to his epoch-making The Waste Land, and onward through his conversion to Anglicanism and his mature accomplishment of Four Quartets.

Units: 3.0