아리스토텔레스의 『형이상학』에 대한 엘리엇의 이해

Abstract

T. S. Eliot, a graduate student at Harvard Univ. studying at Trinity College, Oxford Univ., spent his final semester from May 22 to July 10, 1915, to lectures by Joachim and Smith and submitting 6-8 weekly assignments. In the assignments, Eliot studied Aristotle’s Metaphysics and showed his understanding of Aristotle’s philosophy. Four articles related to The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot Vol. 1. edited by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard are included. These articles apply Eliot’s tasks of Aristotle’s philosophy as presented in “Thought and Reality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” “Matter and Form in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” and “Causality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics” to Eliot’s “Whispers of Immotality” and Metaphysical Poets. This article examines Eliot’s understanding of the assignments submitted after taking a lecture on Aristotle in 1915 and the poem “Whispers of Immortality” written from that year to 1918 on Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Metaphysical Poets.