 | The Modern Dilemma: Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Humanism Subjects: Stevens Wallace 1879–1955 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eliot T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888–1965 -- Criticism and interpretation; Humanism in literature; Civilization Western in literature; Leon Surette's new study of T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens challenges the received view that Stevens' poetry expresses a Humanist world view, and - more surprisingly - documents Eliot's early Humanist phase. Surette Leon : Leon Surette is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. His previous books include The Modern Dilemma: Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Humanism and The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and the Occult.Leon Surette is professor emeritus, English, the University of Western Ontario, and the author of The Birth of Modernism, Pound in Purgatory, and A Light From Eleusis. |
