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Disturbing the Universe

Disturbing the Universe. HUM 2213: British and American Literature II Spring 2015 Dr. Perdigao February 2, 2015. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965). 1888 Thomas Stearns Eliot born in St. Louis, Missouri, seventh and youngest child 1898 Attends Smith Academy, school founded by grandfather

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Disturbing the Universe

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  1. Disturbing the Universe HUM 2213: British and American Literature II Spring 2015 Dr. Perdigao February 2, 2015

  2. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) • 1888 Thomas Stearns Eliot born in St. Louis, Missouri, seventh and youngest child • 1898 Attends Smith Academy, school founded by grandfather • 1905 Published poems in Smith Academy Record; enrolled in Milton Academy to prepare for Harvard • 1906 Attended Harvard • 1907 Published poems in Harvard Advocate • 1909 Received A.B. at Harvard—courses in Greek, Latin, German, French and English language and literature, history, Florentine painting, philosophy • 1910 Composed Class of 1910 Ode, received M.A.; attended lectures at the Sorbonne • 1911 Returned to Harvard Graduate School for doctorate in philosophy; course in Indic Philology, Sanskrit, and Indian Philosophy. Completed “Prufrock” • 1912 Appointed Assistant in Philosophy • 1914 Awarded traveling fellowship to study philosophy for year at Oxford; met Ezra Pound • 1915 Prufrock and Other Poems 1911-1912 published; took job as teacher at High Wycombe Grammar School • 1916 Became Junior Master at Highgate Junior School; dissertation accepted • 1917 Entered Colonial and Foreign Department of Lloyds Bank in the City of London; became Assistant Editor of The Egoist

  3. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) • 1919 “Tradition and the Individual Talent” published in The Egoist • 1921 Suffered breakdown, three months leave from Lloyds Bank, completed drafting of The Waste Land • 1922 The Waste Land published in The Criterion • 1925 Went into publishing with Faber & Gwyer, published Poems 1909-1925 • 1927 Baptized and confirmed in Church of England; becomes a naturalized British citizen • 1932 Selected Essays 1917-1932; Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard • 1936 Collected Poems 1909-1935 published • 1947 Honorary doctorates by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton • 1948 Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature • 1952 The Complete Poems and Plays published in the US • 1963 Collected Poems 1909-1962 • 1964 Awarded US Medal of Freedom • 1965 Died January 4; ashes later interred in west end of parish church of East Coker

  4. Reenvisioning The Waste Land • http://www.blork.org/blorkblog/2007/10/20/i-can-has-waste-land/ • http://corprew.org/content/lolcat-wasteland/ (full poem)

  5. Do I Dare? • Disturbing the universe • Middle age • Question of the meaning of existence, of being • Hamlet • Dramatic monologue • Stasis • Creation or destruction • Desire or death

  6. Fragments and Ruins • Urban setting, world of the city • Isolation, alienation • Fragmentation in style and theme—loss and liberation • Crisis of masculinity post World War I • Psychological state of the individual, of the larger society and civilization • The value and possibilities for poetry, for creation

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