Notas Thomas Eliot La Unidad de La Cultura Europea
Notas Thomas Eliot La Unidad de La Cultura Europea
Notas Thomas Eliot La Unidad de La Cultura Europea
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T. S. Eliot is considered by many to be a literary genius and one of the most influential men
of letters during the half-century after World War I. He attended Harvard University, with
time abroad pursuing graduate studies at the Sorbonne, Marburg, and Oxford. The outbreak
of World War I prevented his return to the United States, and, persuaded by Ezra Pound to
remain in England, he decided to settle there permanently. He published his influential
early criticism, much of it written as occasional pieces for literary periodicals. He
developed such doctrines as the "dissociation of sensibility" and the "objective correlative"
and elaborated his views on wit and on the relation of tradition to the individual talent. Eliot
by this time had left his early, derivative verse far behind and had begun to publish avant-
garde poetry (including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which exploited
fresh rhythms, abrupt juxtapositions, contemporary subject matter, and witty allusion. This
period of creativity also resulted in another collection of verse (including "Gerontian") and
culminated in The Waste Land, a masterpiece published in 1922 and produced partly during
a period of psychological breakdown. In 1922, Eliot became a director of the Faber &
Faber publishing house, and in 1927 he became a British citizen and joined the Church of
England. Thereafter, his career underwent a change. With the publication of Ash
Wednesday in 1930, his poetry became more overtly Christian. As editor of the influential
literary magazine The Criterion, he turned his hand to social as well as literary criticism,
with an increasingly conservative orientation. His religious poetry culminated in Four
Quartets, published individually from 1936 onward and collectively in 1943. This work is
often considered to be his greatest poetic achievement. Eliot also wrote poetry in a much
lighter vein, such as Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), a collection that was used
during the early 1980s as the basis for the musical, Cats. In addition to his contributions in
poetry and criticism, Eliot is the pivotal verse dramatist of this century. He followed the
lead of William Butler Yeats in attempting to revive metrical language in the theater. But,
unlike Yeats, Eliot wanted a dramatic verse that would be self-effacing, capable of
expressing the most prosaic passages in a play, and an insistent, undetected presence
capable of elevating itself at a moment's notice. His progression from the pageant The Rock
(1934) and Murder in the Cathedral (1935), written for the Canterbury Festival, through
The Family Reunion (1939) and The Cocktail Party (1949), a West End hit, was thus a
matter of neutralizing obvious poetic effects and bringing prose passages into the flow of
verse. Recent critics have seen Eliot as a divided figure, covertly attracted to the very
elements (romanticism, personality, heresy) he overtly condemned. His early attacks on
romantic poets, for example, often reveal him as a romantic against the grain. The same
divisions carry over into his verse, where violence struggles against restraint, emotion
against order, and imagination against ironic detachment. This Eliot is more human and
more attractive to contemporary taste. During his lifetime, Eliot received many honors and
awards, including the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948.
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El término con el sognificado de algo que hay de algo que gay que aspirar consientente en
los asuntos humanos tiene relativamente poco tiempo; a cultura se refere a la formación
del individuo por encima de la del grupo, pero tamién hay una cultura de grupo, en
contraste con la enos desarrollada de masas. Cuando la palabra cultura se aplica al
perfecionamiento de la mente es muy coplicado ponerse de acuerdo. Después de Taylor,
el significado se ha diversificado ampliamente