Hamlet and His Problems

Hamlet and His Problems

"Hamlet and His Problems" is a 1920 essay by T. S. Eliot which offers a critical reading of "Hamlet". Originally published in Eliot's "The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism", this essay introduced his concept of objective correlative. The essay is also noted for its bold description of "Hamlet" as "an artistic failure".

References

*Cowley, V.J.E. " [http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-6551(197508)2%3A26%3A103%3C320%3AASFTSE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C&cookieSet=1 A Source for T. S. Eliot's "Objective Correlative"?] ." "The Review of English Studies", New Series, Vol. 26, No. 103 (Aug., 1975), pp. 320-321.
*Quillian, William H. "." Ann Arbor, MI:UMI Research Press, 1983.
*Wright, Nathalia. " [http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9831(197001)41%3A4%3C589%3AASFTSE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q Source for T. S. Eliot's "Objective Correlative"?] ." "American Literature", Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jan., 1970), pp. 589-591.

External links

* Eliot, Thomas Stearns. " [http://books.google.com/books?id=SCfHnLwWg2MC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=%22Hamlet+and+His+Problems%22&source=web&ots=cq01aXo2KC&sig=gkcaDTGsWPk-1C-vh1f0MNMGRa4&hl=en Hamlet and His Problems] ." "The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism."


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