Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Dover Literature: Essays.

Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Dover Literature: Essays.

As Eliot's first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood themes itself in the

As Eliot's first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood themes itself in the realm of literary tradition. Surrounded by a host of poets, readers and artists, Eliot maintains it is the individual's work to clothe himself in this collective knowledge and create in accordance with it as part of a community much larger than himself. Literature is whole in its capacity to house both the temporal and the timeless, allowing the past to exist eternally in the present. We might call it a co-creation in which it is not preposterous ''that the past should be altered by the present as much as it is directed by the past. '' Strong words, but well worth the time it might take to digest and incorporate them. We highly recommend.