In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, T. S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. The demands of his professional life as writer and editor became more complex and exacting. The celebrated but financially pressed periodical he had been editing since 1922--"The Crit[...]

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner distills the fruits of a lifetime's immersio[...]

Recent criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper shows how Eliot deliberately addressed a North Atlantic ?mandarinate? fearful of social disintegration during the politi[...]

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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque--and occa[...]

In this graphic adaptation of OVERACHIEVEMENT, Dr. Eliot offers the rest of us the counterintuitive and unconventional concepts that have been embraced by the Olympic athletes, business moguls, top surgeons, salesmen, financial experts, and rock stars who have turned to him for performance enhanceme[...]

Complete summary of John Eliot's book: "e;Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance"e;.This summary of the ideas from John Eliot's book "e;Overachievement"e; shows that overachievers think differently from the average person. In his book, the author compares the over[...]

Artur Lundkvists essäsamling Ikarus' flykt från 1939 anses vara en av de viktigaste litteraturkritiska skrifterna från det svenska 1900-talet. Här introduceras för första gången författare som James Joyce, William Faulkner och och T.S. Eliot för den svenska publiken. Övriga essäer handlar[...]