T.S. Eliot's Bleistein Poems Uses of Literary

Patricia Sloane's study is a detailed reassessment of two of the poet's most provocative works that examines Eliot's allusions and larger purpose. In this close reading of the two poems in which Bleistein appears, Sloane shows that Burbank is an intricate derivation of Dante's Inferno.

Foreword

Shyamal Bagchee

Author's Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Jews and Infidels in Inferno 4 and in ``Burbank''

21

(34)

Eyes that See and Eyes that Fail (Inferno 4)

30

(16)

The Unexplained Absence of One-Eyed Bleistein

46

(6)

Bleistein's Eye and Dante's Vision Metaphor

52

(3)

Money in Furs; Money in Non-Ferrous Metals I

55

(24)

``A line, a white line, a long white line''

55

(4)

Three Drowned ``Semites''

59

(7)

Four Drowned ``Anglo-Saxons''

66

(4)

Bifurcating Leopold Bloom

70

(9)

Money in Furs; Money in Non-Ferrous Metals II

79

(28)

Bleistein and Job

79

(7)

Eliot's ``Burbank'' and Joyce's ``Ulysses''

86

(4)

ASARCO and the American Fur Company

90

(11)

Sir Alfred Mond and Non-Ferrous Metals

101

(6)

Is Bleistein a Poet? (PART ONE)

107

(16)

Forbidden Words and Forgotten Practices

107

(7)

Bleistein's Eye and Other Amazing Body Parts

114

(9)

Is Bleistein a Poet? (PART TWO)

123

(18)

Poet Stereotypes

123

(8)

Browning's Cigar and Salmon's Estaminet

131

(8)

Playing with Poetic Form; Playing with Readers

139

(2)

``Full Fathom Five Your Bleistein Lies''

141

(22)

Metaphoric Brother Father Bleistein

141

(10)

``Graves' Disease'' and Crabby Graves

151

(4)

John Ruskin on Canaletto and Jewish Merchants

155

(8)

Beautiful Caricatures, Serious Humor

163

(16)

Merchants and Sailors

163

(4)

Lustrous Pearls (``that were his eyes'')

167

(2)

My Eyes Failed, and Other Issues of Capitalization

169

(10)

A Wilderness of Lions, Wheels, and Kingdoms

179

(12)

Ezekiel's Lion in a Wheel

179

(6)

Dante's Beasts and the Lion's Pedicure

185

(2)

Three and Four Kingdoms

187

(4)

Eliot's Jews (Capitalized and Uncapitalized)

191

(22)

Jews, Hebrews, Semites and Israelites

191

(12)

Jewis Imagery and Eliot's Source Texts

203

(3)

Reconsidering the ``Ways'' to Identify Jews

206

(2)

Stephen Spender and the Ghetto of Venice

208

(5)

Bleistein and Klein, the Names

213

(16)

Poetic Assent and Philosophical Belief

213

(2)

Portia's Caskets and Bleistein's Name

215

(1)

Ferdinand and the ``Columbo'' Affair

216

(5)

Pleysteins, Bleisteins, Blystones and Blyths

221

(4)

George Bleistein and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

225

(4)

Princess Volupine, Venice, and John Ruskin

229

(28)

Venetian Names and Venetian Courtesans

229

(4)

The Whore of Babylon

233

(5)

Cleopatra's Burning Barge(s)

238

(3)

John Ruskin's Seven Lamps

241

(8)

Hakagawa and Others Who Burn with Slimy Lust

249

(8)

The Epigraph To ``Burbank'': Fragment One

257

(20)

1st. Theophile Gautier (1811--1872)

258

(19)

The Epigraph: Fragments Two Through Six

277

(20)

2nd. Andrea Mantegna (1431--1506)

277

(5)

3rd. Henry James (1843--1916)

282

(2)

4th. William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

284

(2)

5th. Robert Browning (1812--1889)

286

(2)

6th. John Marston (1575?--1634)

288

(6)

Memory in the epigraph

294

(3)

The ``God-Centered'' Hippo Trilogy

297

(22)

Cross-References within a Trilogy

297

(8)

Playing with Numbers, Playing with Readers

305

(3)

Scolding the Church, Levitating the Beast

308

(11)

The Sixth Quatrain

319

(14)

On the Rialto with the Land-Rats and the Water-Rats

319

(5)

Lots of Piles and Piles of Lots

324

(2)

Slimy Lust, Slimy Venetians, the Slimy Tower of Babel

326

(3)

Venetian School, Chicago School, Viennese School

329

(4)

The Notes to the Waste Land

333

(4)

Dante As A Primary Source I

337

(32)

In Search of Dante's Allegorical David

337

(10)

Alberigo and the ``privilege'' of the Ptolomea

347

(7)

The Mean and Envious Trimmers

354

(6)

Listening to the Voice from the Temple

360

(9)

Dante As A Primary Source II

369

(14)

Augustine and the Jews

369

(5)

Prophets and Sibyls from Augustine to Michelangelo

374

(2)

Tiresias, the Sibyl of Cumae, and Sibyl Vane

376

(7)

Appendix I

383

(2)

Publication Dates for the OED Fascicles: 1884--1928

383

(1)

The Fascicles in Order of Publication: 1884--1928

384

(1)

Appendix II

385

(2)

The Chapters, Joyce's Ulysses

385

(1)

Serial Publication Dates, Ulysses Episodes

386

(1)

References

387

(10)

Index

397

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