Title
An analysis of fusion of music-hall elements with ritual and dramatic myth in TS Eliot's verse plays
Date of Award
6-1-1967
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Ralph M. Wardle
Abstract
Many people think of T. S. Eliot as a type of “good gray poet.” This opinion probably results from his long and distinguished career as a critic, as well as a poet. It stems, too, from his conversion to Anglicanism and from his devotion to the theological and moral precepts of that religious persuasion. Anyone who is acquainted with T. S. Eliot’s poetry, especially that written before “Ash Wednesday,” has come, however, to expect among the sober lyric passages, intrusions of harsh and dissonant sound, jazz-like rhythms, and sordid imagery. Among such passages, for example, are the lines from “The Fire Sermon” in “The Wasteland.”
Recommended Citation
Swanson, Margaret Seibert, "An analysis of fusion of music-hall elements with ritual and dramatic myth in TS Eliot's verse plays" (1967). Student Work. 3254.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/3254
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Comments
A Thesis Presented to the Department of English and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts University of Nebraska at Omaha. Copyright 1967 Margaret Siebert Swanson.