Poezie Johna Donna: T.S.Eliot jako kritik a básník

Šmejdová, Barbora

The aim of the B. A. thesis called "The Poetry of John Donne: T. S. Eliot as Critic and Poet" is to analyse Eliot's view of John Donne in relation to his own poetry and critical work. This is also reflected in the structure of the paper. The first chapter following the introduction is devoted to the description of Eliot's critical positions. The chapter should create a general background of the following discussion of Eliot's view of John Donne. It deals with the issues like Eliot's concept of tradition, the theory of depersonalization, Eliot's attitude to the problem of Romanticism and Classicism, and his earlier account of metaphysical poetry. The next chapter discusses Eliot's specific view of John Donne on the bases of his definition of metaphysical poetry. At first, it sets the problems connected with the definition to a wider perspective of literary criticism. It shows that there are not only different interpretations of the phrase "metaphysical poetry," but the critics differ in the answer to the question which particular poets should belong to this group. Eliot deals with this topic in his lectures on metaphysical poets collected under the title The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry. In this material, we can trace two complementary definitions of metaphysical poetry. Eliot stresses that the...

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