The Sacred Wood

Essays on Poetry and Criticism

T.S. Eliot

Eliot’s collection of essays on poetry and criticism covers such masters of verse as Dante and Blake as well as his critical views of poetic drama, rhetoric, blank verse and other critics such as Ben Johnson, Swinburne and Phillip Massinger.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

Dedication

NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1921 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000

Introduction The Perfect Critic Imperfect Critics Swinburne As Critic A Romantic Aristocrat The Local Flavour A Note on the American Critic The French Intelligence Tradition and the Individual Talent The Possibility of a Poetic Drama Euripides and Professor Murray “Rhetoric” and Poetic Drama Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe Hamlet and His Problems Ben Jonson Philip Massinger Swinburne As Poet Blake Dante