Selected essays, 1917-1932 cover

Selected essays, 1917-1932

by T. S. Eliot

Tradition and the individual talent (1917) -- The function of criticism (1923) -- Rhetoric and poetic drama (1919) -- A dialogue on dramatic poetry (1928) -- Euripides and Professor Murray (1918) -- Seneca in Elizabethan translation (1927) -- The Elizabethan dramatists (1924) -- Christopher Marlowe (1918) -- Shakespeare and the stoicism of Seneca (1927) -- Hamlet and his problems (1919) -- Ben Jonson (1919) -- Thomas Middleton (1927) -- Thomas Heywood (1931) -- Cyril Tourneur (1931) -- John Ford (1932) -- Philip Massinger (1920) -- Dante (1929) -- The metaphysical poets (1921) -- Andrew Marvell (1921) -- John Dryden (1922) -- William Blake (1920) -- Swinburne as poet (1920) -- Lancelot Andrewes (1926) -- John Bramhall (1927) -- Thoughts after Lambeth (1931) -- Baudelaire (1930) -- Arnold and Pater (1930) -- Francis Herbert Bradley (1926) -- Marie Lloyd (1923) -- Wilkie Collins and Dickens (1927) -- The humanism of Irving Babbit (1927) -- Second thoughts on humanism (1929) -- Charles Whibley (1931).

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