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Hamlet and the New Poetic

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Hamlet and the New Poetic
AuthorWilliam H. Quillian
LanguageEnglish
SubjectJames Joyce
T. S. Eliot
Hamlet
Literary criticism
PublisherUMI press
Publication date
1983
Publication placeUnited States

Hamlet and the New Poetic is a book of literary criticism on James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Hamlet by American professor William H. Quillian, originally published in 1983.[1]

Overview

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Hamlet and the New Poetic is an exploration of critical readings of Hamlet during the 19th and 20th centuries. During the Victorian era, Quillian argues, there was an "enormous and positive hold that Hamlet exerted on the literary imagination."[2] This was followed by a "shift in perception"[3] during the period of Modernism (c. 1911–1922) when T. S. Eliot and James Joyce condemned the play as a "failure."[2] Jackson Bryer notes that this text includes an "informative reading" of Eliot's "Hamlet and His Problems" followed by "Eliot's changing attitudes towards this play in his later work."[2]

Reviews

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  • Cheng, Vincent John. "Review of William Quillian's Hamlet and the New Poetic: Joyce and Eliot." James Joyce Quarterly, 24, No. 1 (Fall 1986), 101–106.
  • Kidd, John. "The Genetic Joyce: A Retrospective Review," The James Joyce Literary Supplement 1.2 (Fall 1987): 11.

Notes

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  1. ^ Adrian Poole (29 March 2012). Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett: Great Shakespeareans. A&C Black. pp. 220–. ISBN 978-1-4411-8743-7.
  2. ^ a b c Bryer, Jackson R. (1989). Sixteen Modern American Authors. Duke University Press. p. 202. ISBN 9780822309765. Retrieved 2008-05-29. Hamlet and the New Poetic.
  3. ^ "Books on T. S. Eliot and His Works". Retrieved 2006-09-20.
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