The Sacred Wood by T.S. Eliot

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 Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and the poets Dante Alighieri and William Blake. In the Hamlet essay, Eliot first lays down the theory of the objective correlative.

One of Eliot's most important prose works, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," which was originally published in two parts in the Egoist magazine, is a part of the Sacred Wood collection.

Contents

• 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

External links

• The Sacred Wood at Bartleby.com

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