T.S. Eliot

Question 1

Publication of 4 Quartets

Answer 1

1943

Question 2

4 Quarters comprised of

Answer 2

Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding,

Question 3

love song of alfred j prufrock published when

Answer 3

1915

Question 4

gerontion was published when

Answer 4

1919

Question 5

waste land was published in

Answer 5

1921

Question 6

murder at the cathedral published when

Answer 6

1935

Question 7

murder at the cathedral is based on which incident

Answer 7

that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward Grim, a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event.

Question 8

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was published in

Answer 8

in 1939

Question 9

hollow men was written in

Answer 9

1925

Question 10

Eliot founded the quarterly Criterion in ______________, editing it until its end in 1939

Answer 10

1922

Question 11

Eliot’s four other major plays,

Answer 11

“The Family Reunion” (1939), “The Cocktail Party” (1949), “The Confidential Clerk” (1953), and “The Elder Statesman” (1959)

Question 12

Tradition and Individual Talent was written when

Answer 12

1919

Question 13

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism was published when

Answer 13

1920

Question 14

T.S. Eliot ideas

Answer 14

Objective Correlation
Metaphysical Poets-
samuel johnson- metaphysical poets use heterogenous ideas violently so not really happy but TS Eliot loved them and said they are justified.
Unification of sensibility, Disassociation of sensibility- Elizabthan and joacobean writer were able to synthesize different images and yoke them together- able to produce classics
romantic, victorian, classical, restoral - milton and dryden- masters of the language but not master of the souls - disassociation of sensibility
modern period - yes they can see - unification of sensibility.
TS Eliot for john Donne- every thought was like an experience.
Impersonality

Question 15

t s eliot converted to anglicanism

Answer 15

1927

Question 16

kind of ironies

Answer 16

situation, verbal, dramatic

Question 17

the waste land has how many parts

Answer 17

) The burial of the Dead; 2) A Game of Chess; 3) The fire Sermon; 4) Death by Water; 5) What the Thunder Said.

Question 18

to whom is the waste land dedicated to

Answer 18

Ezra pound

Question 19

il miglior fabbro” in the inscription, which is Italian for “the better craftsman.” who said this to whom

Answer 19

Eliot to Pound

Question 20

Murder at the cathedral

Answer 20

1935