Eliot Critical Quotes

Taunton on Rhapsody and time

“there is a tension and a discrepancy between those objective markers of time and the speaker’s experience of pure duration”

Taunton on Rhapsody and memory

the insulation of a “stale crust of memory”

Seamus Perry on Prufrock’s anxiety

“fretfulness about the humiliations of social encounters that rises to […] to a kind of supressed hysteria”

Swarbrick on women in Prufrock

“idealised womanhood” and “notion of love”

Title of Hollow Men

from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Andrew Swarbrick on The Hollow Men

“Emptiness and near-hopelessness”

Seamus Perry on connection in Hollow Men

avoidance of connection “characterises” the Hollow Men

Seamus Perry on religion in Hollow men

“parody of religion” and “post-Christian worship”

Gabrielle McIntyre on the Waste Land

“symbolic and metaphorical commentary” on our “wasted (+wasteful) existances”

Eleanor Cook on Waste Land

all the cities are “Cities of Destruction”

Kaveney on Prufrock

he is not prepared to “risk sexual rejection”

Helen Gardner on The Waste Land

“a world of loveless loving”

Seamus Perry on Prufrock’s fear

“fear of women”

Swarbrick on Prufrock and Womanhood

mermaids as an “idealised womanhood” showing P “does not have a notion of love”