Hamlet and His Problems

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"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".

[edit] References

• Cowley, V.J.E. "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. Hamlet and the New Poetic: James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. Ann Arbor, MI:UMI Research Press, 1983.
• Wright, Nathalia. "Source for T. S. Eliot's "Objective Correlative"?." American Literature, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jan., 1970), pp. 589-591.

[edit] External links

• Eliot, Thomas Stearns. "Hamlet and His Problems." The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism.

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