This is a revised and enlarged edition. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's "Selected Poems" by identifying and explaining the wide and often baffling range of quotations, allusions and references, literary, factual and historical.
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Brian Charles Southam is a former academic and publisher. He has written many books on the works of Jane Austen and T. S. Eliot, and is the editor of Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts (Continuum, 2006).
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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful
By Jucaro
Format:Paperback
For anyone who ever had trouble understanding The Waste Land - not to mention Eliot's other poems - this book is more than useful, it's ESSENTIAL. Truly brilliant - giving an in-depth explanation of each of the (very) many allusions in The Waste Land. For students writing essays - indeed for anyone who wants to "understand" or know more about Eliot's often impenetrable poetry - this is the book.
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
B.C. Southam, I'm sure has relieved the confusion that many people have felt when studying T.S. Eliot. As an English student,never having studied Eliot's work, I would have been at a total loss had it not been for the user-friendly "Student's Guide", and the thorough explanation of each poem, which previously had little meaning to me. This book is the best companion when reading Eliot that your money could buy!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Allhug
Format:Paperback
Having studied T.S. Eliot for the first time recently as part of a 20th Century Literature course I would say that B.C. Southam's guide was indispensable to me. Particularly as I am a part-time 'mature' student who works full time and I don't often have the luxury of spending the hours that I'd like to look over academic articles and sources.
Eliot is not the easiest of poets to understand (...let alone master), his use of allusion and his 'elitist' approach is quite intimidating to any new student...I wasn't the only one on the course that had trouble with him! - - B.C. Southam was recommended by my tutor as a highly respected and much revised guide for undergraduate study.
Don't get me wrong, you can read Eliot's poetry without Southam's guide and appreciate the vivid imagery, the construction of the 'free-verse', the amalgamation of poetic forms and the way the poems sound/feel when you read them. But Southam's guide adds the historical context, a path through the dense allusive material & helps you to understand the depth of literary history contained within the poems. It also explains a little bit about the modernist principles that guided Eliot as a writer and the influence wielded by his family history, his student days, his unhappy first marriage and his mentor Ezra Pound.
I could not have studied Eliot effectively without Southams's guide - this is why I feel the book deserves 5 stars (...that and the fact that I got far better marks than I had expected!).
Eliot is not the easiest of poets to understand (...let alone master), his use of allusion and his 'elitist' approach is quite intimidating to any new student...I wasn't the only one on the course that had trouble with him! - - B.C. Southam was recommended by my tutor as a highly respected and much revised guide for undergraduate study.
Don't get me wrong, you can read Eliot's poetry without Southam's guide and appreciate the vivid imagery, the construction of the 'free-verse', the amalgamation of poetic forms and the way the poems sound/feel when you read them. But Southam's guide adds the historical context, a path through the dense allusive material & helps you to understand the depth of literary history contained within the poems. It also explains a little bit about the modernist principles that guided Eliot as a writer and the influence wielded by his family history, his student days, his unhappy first marriage and his mentor Ezra Pound.
I could not have studied Eliot effectively without Southams's guide - this is why I feel the book deserves 5 stars (...that and the fact that I got far better marks than I had expected!).
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for individual thinkers
The guide gives a lot of notes but no interpretations. For me Eliot was a plagiarist and his poetry is a one big collage of quotations. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Pablindar
3.0 out of 5 stars
There is no Poem or Play in this book; if that is what you thought it...
The reason I ordered this book, was borrowed from my expectation from the books, Cambridge has for Shakespeare's plays; One page text and one page discussions. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Henri
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliantly detailed
This is a superb book, well worth the money for anyone wishing to gain a better picture of T.S. Eliot's work. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2009 by Archie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unreal city, made real.
B C Southam's work in tracing and expanding on the many references and allussions in Eliot's work is astonishingly in depth. Read more
Published on 12 Jun 2009 by L. G. Cook
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