- Paperback: 234 pages
- Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) (June 1978)
- ISBN-10: 0878050779
- ISBN-13: 978-0878050772
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 703 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,686,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Filled with fancies and empty of meaning",
By "farpavilions" (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Landscape As Symbol in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot (Paperback)
Couldn't agree more with the above review. I found this trite, dull, and hugely uninspiring. Telling us repeatedly that Eliot was "brilliant" and constantly explicating the poems as Christian sermons is not at all helpful. Telling us that "because landscape functions as a major symbol, lack of knowledge about the actual sources, as well as insufficient or even incorrect knowledge, can distort or even reverse its symbolic import", is even less helpful -- particularly when, as it turns out, she herself gets her sources wrong (cf. the mistaken identification of the Lady in The Dry Salvages, later clarified by Helen Gardner).If there is any merit in this book it lies in the nice little anthology of soundbites the author has gleaned from other, more able critics. Oh, and the photos of course :p
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"Filled with fancies and empty of meaning",
By "farpavilions" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Landscape As Symbol in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot (Paperback)
Couldn't agree more with the above review. I found this trite, dull, and hugely uninspiring. Telling us repeatedly that Eliot was "brilliant" and constantly explicating the poems as Christian sermons is not at all helpful. Telling us that "because landscape functions as a major symbol, lack of knowledge about the actual sources, as well as insufficient or even incorrect knowledge, can distort or even reverse its symbolic import", is even less helpful -- particularly when, as it turns out, she herself gets her sources wrong (cf. the mistaken identification of the Lady in The Dry Salvages, later clarified by Helen Gardner).If there is any merit in this book it lies in the nice little anthology of soundbites the author has gleaned from other, more able critics. Oh, and the photos of course :p 0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Ms. Hargrove has a "flair for the obvious.",
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Landscape As Symbol in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot (Paperback)
After almost every observation made by Hargrove in this work, I felt the need to let out a resounding cry of "DUH!!!" (not "DA" as the poet instructs).
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