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The Sacred Wood
The cover of the book, containing the title and author as well as the text "This book includes essays on Dante, Swinburne, Blake, the Contemporaries of Shakespeare, on Poetry, Poetic Drama, and the Criticism of Poetry. Taken together they form a study of past Poetry which will assist in the appraisement of the present."
AuthorT. S. Eliot
GenreLiterary criticism
Publisher
Publication date1920

The Sacred Wood 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.

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.

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

References

  1. Eliot, T. S. (10 July 1997). The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays - Google Book Search. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486299365. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
  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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