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‘Till human voices wake us’: The Isolated Self in Eliot’s Early Poetry |
‘I never know what you are thinking’: The Isolated Self in The Waste Land |
‘Thou pitiest them?’: Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and Eliot’s ‘Dans le Restaurant’ |
The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party: Two Responses to Selfhood |
‘A deeper communion’: Four Quartets |
Chapter Three—Human Love and the Search for Transcendence |
Shelley’s Search for the Antitype |
The Quest for Love in ‘Alastor’ |
Love and Isolation in Eliot’s Early Poetry |
‘Alas, what drove him mad?’: Destructive Love in ‘Julian and Maddalo’ |
Love and Lust in The Waste Land |
‘Epipsychidion’: Love as Religion |
Renunciation or Transcendence? |
‘Expanding / Of love beyond desire’: Four Quartets |