Dancer to God

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Dancer to God

Tributes to T. S. Eliot

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Author: Ted Hughes

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Language: English

Published by: Faber & Faber

Published on: 6th October 2011

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 66 Kb

ISBN: 9780571263011


Introduction

A Dancer to God brings together three short pieces written in homage to T. S. Eliot. They were prompted, in turn, by the unveiling of a plaque, by a reading of The Waste Land in a London theatre, and by a centenary dinner. But each piece far transcends its occasion, and may be read as part of a sustained meditation on the very nature of Eliot's greatness as a poet.

Additional Insights

Readers of Ted Hughes's Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, will find in this smaller book a comparable incisiveness and understanding of the spiritual demands imposed by supreme creative genius.

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