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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2006
Online ISBN:
9780511617959

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T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand the course of modern literature. This book provides the perfect introduction to key aspects of Eliot's life and work, as well as to the wider contexts of modernism in which he wrote. John Xiros Cooper explains how Eliot was influenced by the intellectual climate of both twentieth-century Britain and America, and how he became a key cultural figure on both sides of the Atlantic. The continuing controversies surrounding his writing and his thought are also addressed. With a useful guide to further reading, this is the most informative and accessible introduction to T. S. Eliot.

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Contents

The works of T. S. Eliot
Further reading
After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy. London: Faber and Faber, 1934.
Collected Plays. London: Faber and Faber, 1968.
Collected Poems: 1909–1962 (CP). London: Faber and Faber, 1968.
For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order. London: Faber and Faber, 1928.
The Idea of a Christian Society. London: Faber and Faber, 1939.
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917. Ed. Christopher Ricks. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Letters. Ed. Valerie Eliot. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. 1948; rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1988.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. London: Faber and Faber, 1950.
On Poetry and Poets. London: Faber and Faber, 1957.
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. 1919; rpt. London: Methuen, 1957.
Selected Essays. 1932; rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1951.
To Criticize the Critic, and Other Writings. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. 1933; rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1964.
Ackroyd, Peter. T. S. Eliot. London: Hamilton, 1984. An objective and penetrating biography of the poet.
Alldritt, Keith. Eliot's Four Quartets: Poetry as Chamber Music. London: Woburn Press, 1978. Examines Eliot's use of sonata form in the composition of Four Quartets.
Asher, Kenneth George. T. S. Eliot and Ideology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. A thorough and incisive account of the background to Eliot's social and cultural criticism.
Bedient, Calvin. He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and its Protagonist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. A detailed study of the voices in the poem, with an emphasis on the role of Tiresias.
Brooker, Jewel Spears. Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. An excellent analysis of Eliot's relationship to literary modernism.
Brooker, Jewel Spears, ed. T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. An indispensable guide to Eliot's reception among his contemporaries.
Bush, Ronald. T. S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. An intelligent and sensitive study of Eliot's style and its relation to his psychology.
Bush, RonaldT. S. Eliot: The Modernist in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. A series of essays on Eliot and concepts of history.
Childs, Donald J.T. S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover. London: Athlone Press, 1997. An important critical work on Eliot's belief system.
Chinitz, David E.T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. A groundbreaking account of Eliot's interest in and use of popular culture in America and England.
Cowan, Laura, Knowles, Sebastian David Guy, and Leonard, Scott A., eds. T. S. Eliot: Man and Poet. Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1990. A wide variety of critical and biographical essays with much useful information.
Crawford, Robert. The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. A very stimulating analysis of a central paradox in Eliot's poetry.
Cuddy, Lois A.T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Evolution: Sub/Versions of Classicism, Culture and Progress. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2000. Provocative readings of Eliot's major works, with a poststructuralist bent.
Davidson, Hamet, ed. T. S. Eliot. London and New York: Longman, 1999. Important essays excerpted from works by the leading critics in Eliot studies.
Dawson, J. L., Holland, P. D., and McKitterick, D. J.. A Concordance to the Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. A very useful tool for advanced work on Eliot's texts.
Donoghue, Denis. Words Alone: The Poet, T. S. Eliot. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. A very accessible engagement with Eliot's language.
Frye, Northrop. T. S. Eliot. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964. A somewhat jaundiced but fair introduction to Eliot's ideas and works.
Gardner, Helen. The Art of T. S. Eliot. New York: Dutton, 1950. An early but still very useful analysis of Eliot's mastery of literary form, especially in Four Quartets.
Gordon, Lyndall. T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. New York: Norton, 1999. The most recent biography of Eliot with much new material.
Habib, Rafey. The Early T. S. Eliot and Western Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. An excellent account of Eliot's philosophical reading and the background to his early thought.
Jain, Manju. T. S. Eliot and American Philosophy: The Harvard Years. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. The best account of Eliot's early engagements with philosophy at Harvard University.
Julius, Anthony. T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. A prosecutorial attack on Eliot's attitudes toward Jews and the impact on his poetry.
Kearns, Cleo McNelly. T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions: A Study in Poetry and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. An important study of Eliot's exposure to and use of Indian religious traditions.
Kenner, Hugh. The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot. London: Methuen, 1966. Still one of the very best critical works on Eliot both in explaining his poetics of impersonality and in its relevance to a reading of his works.
Laity, Cassandra, and Gish, Nancy K., eds. Gender, Desire and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Thought-provoking engagements with Eliot's texts from a number of theoretical perspectives.
Manganiello, Dominic. T. S. Eliot and Dante. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1989. Examines the influence of Dante on Eliot and Eliot's interpretations of the Italian poet.
Menand, Louis. Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and his Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. An important contextual study of Eliot, especially his relation to the modernist movement.
Miller, James E.T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978. A pioneering study of The Waste Land as possibly homoerotic in subtext.
Moody, A. D.Thomas Stearns Eliot, Poet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Good readings of major poems with reference to sources and literary history.
Moody, A. D.The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Essays surveying the life, work, and legacy of the poet.
Oser, Lee. T. S. Eliot and American Poetry. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. A useful if somewhat exaggerated study, placing of Eliot in relation to the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and American literary history.
Perl, Jeffrey M.Skepticism and Modern Enmity: Before and After Eliot. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. An excellent examination of Eliot's place in modern philosophical traditions and in the cultural history of modernity.
Raine, Craig. In Defence of T. S. Eliot. London: Picador, 2000. An interesting defense of Eliot against recent attacks on his reputation by a fellow poet and one of Eliot's successors as poetry editor at Faber and Faber.
Ricks, Christopher. T. S. Eliot and Prejudice. London: Faber and Faber, 1988. A defense of Eliot written at a time when the poet was under attack for anti-Semitism.
Riquelme, John Paul. Harmony of Dissonances: T. S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. A stimulating account of Eliot's poetics and his ambiguous relationship to the romantic tradition.
Sigg, Eric. The American T. S. Eliot: A Study of the Early Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Emphasizes Eliot's American roots and examines his early poetry in that context.
Smith, Grover. T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. Still the best study of the literary and historical sources of Eliot's poetry and plays.
Smith, GroverT. S. Eliot and the Use of Memory. London: Associated University Presses, 1996. An accessible account of an important dimension of Eliot's poetry.
Southam, B. C.A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot.London: Faber and Faber, 1994. Originally published in 1969, this small book offers elementary, but informed, readings of Eliot's major poems.
Thormählen, Marianne. The Waste Land: A Fragmentary Wholeness. Lund: LiberLäromedel/Gleerup, 1978. A detailed account of the problems involved in establishing the unity of The Waste Land.
Williamson, George. A Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem-by-Poem Analysis. New York: Noonday Press, 1966. Still useful as a study of sources, though a little outdated in its readings of the poetry.

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