T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems

Claude Le Fustec claude.le-fustec@univ-rennes2.fr (semestre 1)

Aliette Ventéjoux aliette.ventejoux@univ-rennes2.fr (semestre 2)

T.S. Eliot. Collected Poems 1909-1962. Londres, Faber, 1963. Du début (Prufrock and Other Observations) jusqu'aux Unfinished Poems.

Start with a close reading of the poems, making detailed notes on recurrent motifs, themes, and patterns which might later be elucidated by critical articles and essays.

Background to literary modernism

Childs, Peter. Modernism. London: The New Critical Idiom. Routledge, 2016.

Eliot on poetry

« Hamlet and His Problems » (1919)

« Tradition and Individual Talent » (1919)

« The Metaphysical Poets » (1921).