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> [“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist, phenomenologist, structuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and poststructuralist theories appeared and stimulated dazzling conversations about how texts mean. Bloom, Miller,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/the-period-of-general-neglect-of-eliot-s-poetry-was-one-in-which-a/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

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> [“The intellectual context in which Eliot began work on the "long poem" that was to become The Waste Land has much to tell us about formal aspects of his poem. Certainly it reveals something of the problem any artist would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/the-intellectual-context-in-which-eliot-began-work-on-the-long-poem/)

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## More by Jewel Spears Brooker

> [“Eliot's own reflections on the primitive mind as a model for nondualistic thinking and on the nature and consequences of different modes of consciousness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/eliot-s-own-reflections-on-the-primitive-mind-as-a-model-for/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“The best of the New Critics were masters of close readings. Cleanth Brooks, for example, in 1937 wrote a detailed commentary on The Waste…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/the-best-of-the-new-critics-were-masters-of-close-readings-cleanth/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“The Golden Bough captured the imagination of many artists in the early twentieth century. Eliot, certainly, was immersed in it, discussing it familiarly in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/the-golden-bough-captured-the-imagination-of-many-artists-in-the/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/reading-the-waste-land-then-is-in-part-reading-about-reading-in-the/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“Most of the makers of the twentieth-century mind, figures such as Freud, Heisenberg, Picasso, Joyce, and Eliot, have in common an about-face on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/most-of-the-makers-of-the-twentieth-century-mind-figures-such-as/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and transcendent stages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/eliot-s-understanding-of-poetic-epistemology-is-a-version-of-bradley/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“The sixties began what many admirers of Eliot would consider a bleak period. The anxiety of influence of the profession at large seemed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/the-sixties-began-what-many-admirers-of-eliot-would-consider-a-bleak/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“In his 1923 review of James Joyce Ulysses, T. S. Eliot focused on one of his generation's recurrent anxieties--the idea that art might be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/in-his-1923-review-of-james-joyce-ulysses-t-s-eliot-focused-on-one-of/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist, phenomenologist, structuralist,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/the-period-of-general-neglect-of-eliot-s-poetry-was-one-in-which-a/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/the-stetson-passage-is-an-allusion-to-frazer-theory-in-the-golden/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“The decline of sustained close reading of Eliot is also related, ironically, to the emergence of historical scholarship regarding sources and allusions. The major…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/the-decline-of-sustained-close-reading-of-eliot-is-also-related/)

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> [“The intellectual context in which Eliot began work on the "long poem" that was to become The Waste Land has much to tell us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/the-intellectual-context-in-which-eliot-began-work-on-the-long-poem/)

[Jewel Spears Brooker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jewel-spears-brooker/)

> [“One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jewel-spears-brooker/one-problem-with-the-work-of-the-new-critics-was-that-their-close/)

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