The Sacred Wood

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The Sacred Wood
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Author T. S. Eliot
Genre Literary criticism
Publisher
Publication date
1920
Publication place
  • London, United Kingdom
  • New York, N.Y., United States
Pages155 (U.K.)
OCLC 1005416

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism is a collection of 20 essays by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1920. Topics include Eliot's opinions of many literary works and authors, including William Shakespeare's play Hamlet , and the poets Dante Alighieri and William Blake. [1]

One of his most important prose works, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", which was originally published in two parts in The Egoist , is a part of The Sacred Wood. The book also contains the essay "Hamlet and His Problems", in which Eliot first put forward his idea of the objective correlative. [2]

The essay "Philip Massinger" contains the famous line (often misquoted) "Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal". [3]

References

  1. ↑ T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot (1920). The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C. OCLC   1005416.
  2. ↑ "The Sacred Wood | Modernist Poetry, Literary Criticism & Analysis | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  3. ↑ "T. S. Eliot - Wikiquote". en.wikiquote.org. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
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