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| Author | T. S. Eliot |
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| Genre | Literary criticism |
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Publication date | 1920 |
The Sacred Wood is a collection of 20 essays by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1920. Topics include Eliot's opinions of many literary works and authors, including William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and the poets Dante Alighieri and William Blake.[1]
One of his most important prose works, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", which was originally published in two parts in The Egoist, is a part of The Sacred Wood. The book also contains the essay "Hamlet and His Problems", in which Eliot first put forward his idea of the objective correlative.[2]
The essay "Philip Massinger" contains the famous line (often misquoted) "Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal".[3]
References
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- ^ Eliot, T. S. (10 July 1997). The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays - Google Book Search. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486299365. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
- ^ "The Sacred Wood | Modernist Poetry, Literary Criticism & Analysis | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- ^ "T. S. Eliot - Wikiquote". en.wikiquote.org. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
Further reading
[edit]- Domestico, Anthony. "The Sacred Wood – Modernism Lab". campuspress.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
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