ABSTRACT

First Published in 2000. Nearly everyone who addresses T. S. Eliot's imaginative and critical work must acknowledge the importance of music in thematic and formal terms. This collection of original essays thoroughly explores this aspect of his work from a number of perspectives.

part I|107 pages

Eliot and Popular Musical Culture

chapter Chapter 1|22 pages

A Jazz-Banjorine, Not a Lute

Eliot and Popular Music before The Waste Land

chapter Chapter 2|23 pages

Culture, Race, Rhythm

Sweeney Agonistes and the Live Jazz Break

chapter Chapter 3|15 pages

Raising Life to a Kind of Art

Eliot and Music Hall

chapter Chapter 4|20 pages

Protective Coloring

Modernism and Blackface Minstrelsy in the Bolo Poems

chapter Chapter 5|23 pages

Thinking with Your Ears

Rhapsody, Prelude, Song in Eliot’s Early Lyrics

part II|38 pages

You Are the Music

chapter Chapter 6|18 pages

Eliot’s Impossible Music

chapter Chapter 7|18 pages

Eliot’s Ars Musica Poetica

Sources in French Symbolism

part III|194 pages

Eliot and the Composers

chapter Chapter 8|30 pages

The Pattern from the Palimpsest

Convergences of Eliot, Tippett, and Shakespeare

chapter Chapter 9|16 pages

Movements in Time

Four Quartets and the Late String Quartets of Beethoven

chapter Chapter 10|19 pages

“My God, What Has Sound Got to Do with Music?!”

Interdisciplinarity in Eliot and Ives

chapter Chapter 11|29 pages

Benjamin Britten and T. S. Eliot

Entre Deux Guerres and After

chapter Chapter 12|22 pages

Reading Aloud and Composing

Two Ways of Hearing a Poem

chapter Chapter 13|28 pages

Orchestrating The Waste Land

Wagner, Leitmotiv, and the Play of Passion

chapter Chapter 14|39 pages

A Tale of Two Artists

Eliot, Stravinsky, and Disciplinary (Im)Politics