T. S. Eliot - The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry

First published in 1993 by Faber and Faber Limited.

All texts by T. S. Eliot 1993 by SET Copyrights Limited Editorial matter and annotations 1993 by Ronald Schuchard

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 18881965.

The varieties of metaphysical poetry: the Clark lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull lectures at the Johns Hopkins University, 1933/by T. S. Eliot; edited and introduced by Ronald Schuchard.1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

Includes indexes.

ISBN 0-15-100096-4

ISBN 0-15-600256-6 (pbk.)

1. English poetryEarly modern, 15001700History and criticism. 2. Donne, John, 15721631Criticism and interpretation. 3. Metaphysics in literature. I . Schuchard, Ronald. II . Title, III . Title: Clark lectures, IV . Title: Turnbull lectures.
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I wish to express my deepest thanks to Mrs Valerie Eliot for her confidence and encouragement during the preparation of this edition of her husbands Clark Lectures and Turnbull Lectures. The volume would not have been possible without her personal interest, assistance and hospitality.

I am indebted to the following persons for help and advice: the late William Arrowsmith, Boston University; Joseph C. Baillargeon, Seattle, Washington; George Bornstein, University of Michigan; Jewel Spears Brooker, Eckerd College; William C. Charron, Saint Louis University; Robert Crawford, University of Glasgow; Denis Donoghue, New York University; Donald Gallup, Yale University; Warwick Gould, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London; John S. Kelly, St Johns College, Oxford; Frank Kermode, Kings College, Cambridge; Mrs Frances Kidder, Cockeysville, Maryland; Joseph Kronik, Louisiana State University; A. Walton Litz, Princeton University; James B. Longenbach, University of Rochester; Roger H. Lonsdale, Balliol College, Oxford; Richard A. Macksey, Johns Hopkins University; Louis L. Martz, Yale University; Lawrence Rainey, Yale University; Christopher Ricks, Boston University; John Paul Riquelme, Boston University; Philip Rusche, Yale University; John Paul Russo, University of Miami; Herman J. Saatkamp Jr, Texas A & M University; Craig A. Simmons, Yale University; Stephano Tani; Deirdre Toomey, London; Anne Varty, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London; George Watson, St Johns College, Cambridge; and my colleagues at Emory University: Mark Bauerlein, Jerome Beaty, Martine W. Brownley, Josue Harari, John Johnston, Dalia Judowitz, Paul Kuntz, Judy Raggi Moore, Walter Reed, Harry Rusche, John Sitter.

I am grateful to the following librarians and archivists for research assistance: Rodney Dennis and Elizabeth A. Falsey, Houghton Library, Harvard University; Jacqueline Cox and Michael Halls, Kings College, Cambridge; Richard Luckett, Magdalene College, Cambridge; Eric R. Nitschke and Greta Boers, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University; David J. McKitterick, Trinity College Library, Cambridge; Julia B. Morgan and James Stimpert, The Ferdinand Hamburger Jr Archives, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Plunkett, Alderman Library, University of Virginia; Cynthia H. Requardt, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University; Margery Sly, College Archives, Smith College; Susan D. Weinandy, Maryland Historical Society; Howard Gerwing and the staff of the McPherson Library, University of Victoria.

Special thanks to my wife, Keith Schuchard, for critical and judicious readings of the manuscript at various stages of preparation. Jewel Spears Brooker, Louis L. Martz, A. Walton Litz and Christopher Ricks read the manuscript generously and closely in a late stage, and I am indebted to them for their corrections and suggestions. I am further indebted to David Bradshaw of Worcester College, Oxford, for providing his bibliographical list of eleven previously unrecorded reviews that TSE published in TLS from 192730, and to John Bodley of Faber and Faber for editorial assistance and for skilfully seeing the volume through the press.

For permission to quote from translations I am indebted to the following: Keith Bosley, Mallarm The Poems (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1977); John Cairncross, Racines Phaedra, in Masterpieces of the Drama, 5th edition, ed. Alexander W. Allison, Arthur J. Carr, Arthur M. Eastman (New York: Macmillan, 1986); Michael Collie, Laforgue (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1963); Alfred Allinson, Down There [L-bas], by J.-K. Huysmans (London: Fortune Press, 1930); G. P. Goold, Catullus (London: Duckworth, 1983); C. F. MacIntyre, One Hundred Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1947), and Selections from Les Amours Jaunes (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1954); Geoffrey Wagner, Selected Writings of Grard de Nerval (London: Peter Owen, 1958); The Penguin Book of French Verse, ed. Brian Woledge, Geoffrey Brereton and Anthony Hartley (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1977); Grover A. Zinn, Richard of St. Victor (New York: Paulist Press, 1979). Unacknowledged translations in the notes are by the editor.

Drawings by Theresa Garrett Eliot are reproduced by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University, and Mrs Valerie Eliot.

I am grateful to the Emory University Research Committee for a grant that provided partial support for the research of this edition.

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