Eliot T. S. - T.S. Eliot, poetry, and earth the name of the lotos rose

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Names: Terblanche, Etienne, 1964- author.

Title: T. S. Eliot, poetry, and earth : the name of the lotos rose / Etienne Terblanche.

Other titles: Name of the lotos rose

Description: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016. | Series: Ecocritical theory and practice | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016006141 (print) | LCCN 2016010235 (ebook) | ISBN 9780739189573 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780739189580 (Electronic)

Subjects: LCSH: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation. | Nature in literature. | Materialism in literature. | Ecology in literature. | Ecocriticism in literature.

Classification: LCC PS3509.L43 Z8747 2016 (print) | LCC PS3509.L43 (ebook) | DDC 821/.912--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016006141

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Printed in the United States of America

My gratitude for permission to cite lines from T. S. Eliots poems The Waste Land, Four Quartets, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Rhapsody on a Windy Night, Preludes, Gerontion, and The Hippopotamus, as well as from T. S. Eliots Selected Prose, all as published by Faber & Faber Ltd.

Gratitude for permission to use excerpts from the Harcourt publication of T. S. Eliots Complete Poems 1909-1962. Copyright 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright renewed 1964 by Thomas Stearns Eliot. Reprinted by permission from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

I thank wholeheartedly colleagues who have inspired me over the years with discussion of Eliots poetry, modernism, and ecocriticism. Without the connection that I have been enjoying with Michael Webster, Attie de Lange, Jewel Spears Brooker, Nicholas Meihuizen, Reinier Terblanche, and Thys Human, my work in these areas would have been impoverished beyond recognition. My heartfelt thanks to colleagues and friends Aaron M. Moe, Franck Liu, Dan Wylie, Heilna du Plooy, Ian Bekker, Laurence Wright, and Bernard Odendaal for their input into ones thought and life. My thanks to Douglas Vakoch not only for incorporating me in this book series, but also for his hard, synergistic work on my ecocritical collaboration across international boundaries. Thanks also to fellow lepidopterists who patiently support ones interest in natural history and hard science: Hermann Staude, Graham Henning, Dave Edge, Mark Williams, Silvia Kirkman, and my brother, inspiring fellow student of Earth, Reinier Terblanche.

I also wish to thank my school director, Wannie Carstens, my dean, Jan Swanepoel, and my vice-chancellor, Dan Kgwadi, for their willingness to provide me with a sabbaticals worth of formulating and polishing the books materials. Here I need to thank especially my English departmentRakgomo Pheto, Lande Botha, Ian Bekker, Attie de Lange, Nicholas Meihuizen, Karien van den Berg, and Michele du Plessis-Hayfor their willingness to organize our teaching in such a way as to make the said sabbatical possible. A special word of gratitude to my honors students of 2014, Daniel Engelbrecht and Crizeldi Gray, for their input in response to the manuscript. Also to Christien Terblanche for minor but vital language editing of the materials, and for acting as a soundboard toward testing my ideas. We all need a trustworthy and bright first reader. In the same breath my thanks to the publishers editors and proof readers Lindsey Porambo, Anthony Johns, and Hannah Fisher for instructive comments and encouragement. It has been a real pleasure to work with this remarkable team.

My immediate family deserves considerable praise and gratitude for their patience with their husband-and-father (and his books, insects, and journeys), their unconditional love, and much, much more: my beloved partner Christien and our children Brink, Reinier, Stephan, and Benjamin. My parents-in-law, Koos and Hannatjie Vorster, as well as my brother-in-law, Nico Vorster, embody invaluable and formative energies in my life, and I herewith honor their unconditional and open-hearted acceptance and guidance.