This painting, which Eliot displayed on the wall of his room while doing graduate work at Harvard, renders an extreme instance of Eliot’s ground theme of the debate between body and soul. In Brooker’s book, Eliot’s dialectic begins, we may infer, as early as the portrait on the dust jacket-a copy of Gaugin’s painting Le Christ jaune ( The Yellow Christ). Bradley, Julian of Norwich, and the prophet Ezekiel. New insights thereby arise from sources as disparate as F. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination is especially astute in finding new ways of relating Eliot’s intellectual biography to his poetry. Combining new research and rethinking of her earlier books, particularly Mastery and Escape: T. But the new era also includes original thinking about established opinion, including her own. Brooker indicates the new era in her Notes, which include frequent references to “forthcoming” letters and prose works by Eliot. Eliot (7 volumes to date Brooker is co-editor of Volumes 1 and 8) and The Letters of T. Since then, no scholar has been more deeply immersed in the oeuvre of this poet.īefore engaging with her text, we must linger a moment over Ronald Schuchard’s foregoing comment about “a new era of Eliot scholarship.” Despite a near-century of intensive scrutiny, a vast store of Eliot’s papers have come into play only during the past decade, notably including The Complete Prose of T. And she also arranged to have the TSE Society travel to Gloucester to tour the summer home of the Eliot family, along with taking a boat ride to view the Dry Salvages. For the 1988 Eliot Centennial, she persuaded Michael Butler Yeats to come to Saint Louis to give an excellent talk on “Eliot and Yeats,” Michael’s poet-father. Eliot Society-a somewhat moribund entity until she stepped in-Professor Brooker displayed her rare gifts as a scholar/leader with two capstones. Some thirty years ago, as president of the T. Given her career-long dedication to Eliot studies, one cannot be too surprised at this outpouring. brilliant readings of Four Quartets”–John Haffenden “an authoritative, splendidly lucid guide to Eliot’s major poems”-Jahan Ramazani. Cuda “Fresh knowledge and insights abound. Notably, the encomia come from the finest scholars in the field: “A tour de force for the new era of Eliot scholarship”-Ronald Schuchard “excels on Eliot’s religious and moral intelligence”-Lyndall Gordon “a permanent part of the critical canon”-Anthony J. On the back of its dust jacket, a shower of accolades descends upon Jewel Brooker’s most recent contribution to Eliot scholarship, T. (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 2018.
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