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The "Still Point": Theme and Variations in the Writings of T.S. Eliot, Coleridge, Yeats, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and D.H. Lawrence
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The "Still Point": Theme and Variations in the Writings of T.S. Eliot, Coleridge, Yeats, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and D.H. Lawrence

by Ethel F. Cornwell. 264 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Ethel F. Cornwell

Publisher:

   Rutgers University Press

Place of Publication:

  New Brunswick, NJ  

Publication Year:

  1962
Subjects:   Eliot, T. S--(Thomas Stearns),--1888-1965, English Literature--History And Criticism, American Literature--History And Criticism
Table of contents
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
INTRODUCTION 3
1. ELIOT'S CONCEPT OF THE "STILL POINT" 17
2. COLERIDGE AND THE ECSTATIC MOMENT 64
3. YEATS AND HIS SYSTEM 89
4. THE JAMESIAN MOMENT OF EXPERIENCE 126
5. VIRGINIA WOOLF'S MOMENT OF REALITY 159
6. THE SEX MYSTICISM OF D. H. LAWRENCE 208
IN CONCLUSION 242
BIBLIOGRAPHY 248
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