T.S. Eliot

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
General Editor’s Preface......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 19
Abbreviations......Page 22
THE EARLY YEARS......Page 23
‘PRUFROCK AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS’......Page 29
BEFORE ‘THE WASTE LAND’......Page 33
‘THE WASTE LAND’......Page 36
‘POEMS 1909–1925’......Page 40
‘ASH-WEDNESDAY’......Page 42
THE 1930S......Page 46
‘COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1935’......Page 52
‘THE FAMILY REUNION’......Page 53
‘FOUR QUARTETS’......Page 55
‘THE COCKTAIL PARTY’......Page 60
‘THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK’......Page 62
‘THE ELDER STATESMAN’......Page 64
‘COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962’......Page 65
ELIOT’S POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION......Page 66
NOTES......Page 73
Note on the Text......Page 75
‘Prufrock and Other Observations’......Page 76
1. ARTHUR WAUGH, THE NEW POETRY, ‘QUARTERLY REVIEW’......Page 77
2. EZRA POUND, DRUNKEN HELOTS AND MR. ELIOT, ‘EGOIST’......Page 80
3. UNSIGNED REVIEW, ‘TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT’......Page 83
4. FROM AN UNSIGNED REVIEW, ‘LITERARY WORLD’......Page 84
5. UNSIGNED REVIEW, ‘NEW STATESMAN’......Page 85
6. EZRA POUND, T.S.ELIOT, ‘POETRY’......Page 86
Note......Page 90
7. CONRAD AIKEN, DIVERS REALISTS, ‘DIAL’......Page 91
8. EZRA POUND, A LETTER FROM REMY DE GOURMONT, ‘LITTLE REVIEW......Page 93
9. MAY SINCLAIR, ‘PRUFROCK AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS’: A CRITICISM, ‘LITTLE REVIEW’......Page 95
10. BABETTE DEUTSCH, ANOTHER IMPRESSIONIST, ‘NEW REPUBLIC’......Page 100
11. MARIANNE MOORE, A NOTE ON T.S.ELIOT’S BOOK, ‘POETRY’......Page 102
Note......Page 103
12. EDGAR JEPSON, RECENT UNITED STATES POETRY, ‘ENGLISH REVIEW’......Page 104
13. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, PROLOGUE, ‘LITTLE REVIEW’......Page 106
‘Poems’......Page 109
14. UNSIGNED REVIEW, NOT HERE, O APOLLO, ‘TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT’......Page 110
15. FROM AN UNSIGNED REVIEW, IS THIS POETRY?, ‘ATHENAEUM’......Page 114
‘Ara Vos Prec’......Page 116
16. JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY, THE ETERNAL FOOTMAN, ‘ATHENAEUM’......Page 117
17. UNSIGNED REVIEW, A NEW BYRONISM, ‘TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT’......Page 120
18. ROBERT NICHOLS, AN IRONIST, ‘OBSERVER’......Page 123
19. DESMOND MacCARTHY, NEW POETS, T.S.ELIOT, ‘NEW STATESMAN’......Page 126
20. CLIVE BELL, PLUS DE JAZZ, ‘NEW REPUBLIC’......Page 132
‘Poems’......Page 133
21. MARION STROBEL, PERILOUS LEAPING, ‘POETRY’......Page 134
22. E.E.CUMMINGS, T.S.ELIOT, ‘DIAL’......Page 136
Note......Page 139
23. MARK VAN DOREN, ANGLO-SAXON ADVENTURES IN VERSE, ‘NATION’ (NEW YORK)......Page 140
24. LOUIS UNTERMEYER, IRONY DE LUXE, ‘FREEMAN’......Page 141
25. RAYMOND WEAVER, WHAT AILS PEGASUS?, ‘BOOKMAN’ (NEW YORK)......Page 145
26. PADRAIC COLUM, STUDIES IN THE SOPHISTICATED, ‘NEW REPUBLIC’......Page 146
‘The Waste Land’......Page 148
27. UNSIGNED NOTICE OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE ‘CRITERION’ AND REVIEW OF ‘THE WASTE LAND’, ‘TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT’......Page 149
28. UNSIGNED COMMENT ON THE ‘DIAL’ AWARD OF $2,000 TO ‘THE WASTE LAND’, ‘NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’......Page 151
29. UNSIGNED ACCOUNT OF WHY ELIOT WAS AWARDED THE ‘DIAL’S’ PRIZE, ‘DIAL’......Page 152
30 EDMUND WILSON, THE POETRY OF DROUTH, ‘DIAL’......Page 155
31. GILBERT SELDES, T.S.ELIOT, ‘NATION’ (NEW YORK)......Page 160
Note......Page 165
32. LOUIS UNTEKMEYER, DISILLUSION VS. DOGMA, ‘FREEMAN’......Page 166
33. ELINOR WYLIE, MR. ELIOT’S SLUG-HORN, ‘NEW YORK EVENING POST LITERARY REVIEW’......Page 169
34. CONRAD AIKEN, AN ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, ‘NEW REPUBLIC’......Page 172
I.  An Imaginary Dialogue with T.S.Eliot (Mr. Eliot’s answers are in Italics).......Page 177
3.......Page 179
5.......Page 180
36. HARRIET MONROE, A CONTRAST, ‘POETRY’......Page 182
37. J.M., REVIEW, ‘DOUBLE DEALER’......Page 186
38. JOHN CROWE RANSOM, WASTE LANDS, ‘NEW YORK EVENING POST LITERARY REVIEW’......Page 188
39. ALLEN TATE, A REPLY TO RANSOM, ‘NEW YORK EVENING POST LITERARY REVIEW’......Page 195
40. HELEN McAFEE, THE LITERATURE OF DISILLUSION, ‘ATLANTIC’......Page 198
41. EDGELL RICKWORD, UNSIGNED REVIEW, A FRAGMENTARY POEM, ‘TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT’......Page 200
42. CLIVE BELL, T.S.ELIOT, ‘NATION AND ATHENAEUM’......Page 203
43. J.C.SQUIRE ON ELIOT’S FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE, ‘LONDON MERCURY’......Page 207
44. WILLIAM ROSE BENET, AMONG THE NEW BOOKS. POETRY AD LIB, ‘YALE REVIEW’......Page 209
45. CHARLES POWELL, REVIEW, ‘MANCHESTER GUARDIAN’......Page 211
46. F.L.LUCAS, REVIEW, ‘NEW STATESMAN’......Page 213
47. HUMBERT WOLFE, WASTE LAND AND WASTE PAPER, ‘WEEKLY WESTMINSTER’......Page 218
48. GORHAM B.MUNSON, THE ESOTERICISM OF T.S.ELIOT, ‘1924’......Page 222
‘Poems 1909–1925’......Page 229
49. LEONARD WOOLF, ‘JUG JUG’ TO DIRTY EARS, ‘NATION AND ATHENAEUM’......Page 230
50. EDGELL RICKWORD, THE MODERN POET, ‘CALENDAR OF MODERN LETTERS’......Page 232
51. LOUISE MORGAN, THE POETRY OF MR. ELIOT, ‘OUTLOOK’ (LONDON)......Page 236
I.......Page 239
II.......Page 244
Notes......Page 247
53. I.A.RICHARDS, MR. ELIOT’S POEMS, ‘NEW STATESMAN’......Page 249
54. EDMUND WILSON, STRAVINSKY AND OTHERS, ‘NEW REPUBLIC’......Page 253
55. J.C.SQUIRE ON ELIOT’S MEANINGLESSNESS, ‘LONDON MERCURY’......Page 255
56. ALLEN TATE, A POETRY OF IDEAS, ‘NEW REPUBLIC’......Page 257
57. CONRAD AIKEN, FROM THE POETIC DILEMMA, ‘DIAL’......Page 261
‘Ash-Wednesday’......Page 263
58. GERALD HEARD, T.S.ELIOT, ‘WEEK-END REVIEW......Page 264
59. FRANCIS BIRRELL, MR. T.S.ELIOT, ‘NATION AND ATHENAEUM’......Page 267
60. EDA LOU WALTON, T.S.ELIOT TURNS TO RELIGIOUS VERSE, ‘NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’......Page 270
61. ORGILL McKENZIE, REVIEW, ‘NEW ADELPHI’......Page 272
62. EDMUND WILSON, REVIEW, ‘NEW REPUBLIC’......Page 276
63. MORTON D.ZABEL, T.S.ELIOT IN MID-CAREER, ‘POETRY’......Page 278
64. THOMAS MOULT, FROM CONTRASTS IN CURRENT POETRY, ‘BOOKMAN’ (LONDON)......Page 282
65. WILLIAM ROSE BENET, FROM ROUND ABOUT PARNASSUS, ‘SATURDAY REVIEW’......Page 284
Note......Page 285
66. E.G.TWITCHETT, REVIEW, ‘LONDON MERCURY’......Page 286
67. BRIAN HOWARD, MR. ELIOT’S POETRY, ‘NEW STATESMAN’......Page 287
Note......Page 289
68. ALLEN TATE, IRONY AND HUMILITY, ‘HOUND AND HORN’......Page 290
‘Marina’......Page 296
69. MARIANNE MOORE, A MACHINERY OF SATISFACTION, ‘POETRY’......Page 297
‘Triumphal March’......Page 299
70. MORTON D.ZABEL, THE STILL POINT, ‘POETRY’......Page 300
‘Sweeney Agonistes’......Page 303
71. D.G.BRIDSON, REVIEW, ‘NEW ENGLISH WEEKLY’......Page 304
72. GEORGE BARKER, FROM A REVIEW, ‘ADELPHI’......Page 307
73. MORTON D.ZABEL, A MODERN PURGATORIO, ‘COMMONWEAL’......Page 308
74. MARIANNE MOORE, REVIEW, ‘POETRY’......Page 310
‘The Rock’......Page 312
75. UNSIGNED REVIEW, ‘LISTENER’......Page 313
76. UNSIGNED REVIEW, MR. ELIOT’S PAGEANT PLAY, ‘TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT’......Page 315
77. MICHAEL SAYERS, MR. T.S.ELIOT’S ‘THE ROCK’, ‘NEW ENGLISH WEEKLY’......Page 318
78. UNSIGNED EDITORIAL ON ‘THE ROCK’, ‘THEOLOGY’......Page 322
79. UNSIGNED REVIEW, ‘TABLET’......Page 323
80. UNSIGNED REVIEW, ‘EVERYMAN’......Page 324
81. A.M., REVIEW, ‘BLACKFRIARS’......Page 325
82. UNSIGNED REVIEW, ‘SUNDAY TIMES’......Page 326
83. D.W.HARDING, ‘THE ROCK’, ‘SCRUTINY’......Page 327
84. CONRAD AIKEN, AFTER ‘ASH-WEDNESDAY’, ‘POETRY’......Page 331
‘Murder in the Cathedral’......Page 334
85. UNSIGNED REVIEW, MR. ELIOT’S NEW PLAY, ‘TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT’......Page 335
86. I.M.PARSONS, FROM POETRY, DRAMA AND SATIRE, ‘SPECTATOR’......Page 338
87. JAMES LAUGHLIN, MR. ELIOT ON HOLY GROUND, ‘NEW ENGLISH WEEKLY’......Page 340
88. EDWIN MUIR, NEW LITERATURE, ‘LONDON MERCURY’......Page 343
89. MARK VAN DOREN, THE HOLY BLISFUL MARTIR, ‘NATION’ (NEW YORK)......Page 346
90. F.O.MATTHIESSEN, T.S.ELIOT’S DRAMA OF BECKET, ‘SATURDAY REVIEW’......Page 348
91. EDWARD SHILLITO, REVIEW, ‘CHRISTIAN CENTURY’......Page 352
92. FREDERICK A.POTTLE, FROM DRAMA OF ACTION, ‘YALE REVIEW’......Page 356
‘Collected Poems 1909–1935’......Page 359
93. JOHN HAYWARD, LONDON LETTER, ‘NEW YORK SUN’......Page 360
94.  EDWIN MUIR, MR. ELIOT’S POETRY, ‘SPECTATOR’......Page 362
95. PETER QUENNELL, MR. T.S.ELIOT, ‘NEW STATESMAN’......Page 365
96. CYRIL CONNOLLY, A MAJOR POET. THE INFLUENCE OF MR ELIOT, ‘SUNDAY TIMES’......Page 369
97. MALCOLM COWLEY, AFTERTHOUGHTS ON T.S.ELIOT, ‘NEW REPUBLIC’......Page 372
98. MARIANNE MOORE, IT IS NOT FORBIDDEN TO THINK, ‘NATION’ (NEW YORK)......Page 375
99. MORTON D.ZABEL, FROM POETS OF FIVE DECADES, ‘SOUTHERN REVIEW’......Page 378
100. ROLFE HUMPHRIES, ELIOT’S POETRY, ‘NEW MASSES’......Page 381
101. D.W.HARDING, T.S.ELIOT, 1925–1935, ‘SCRUTINY’......Page 384
102. LOUIS UNTERMEYER, FROM NEW POETRY, ‘YALE REVIEW’......Page 389
103. R.P.BLACKMUR, THE WHOLE POET, ‘POETRY’......Page 391
Select Index......Page 393
I WORKS BY ELIOT......Page 394
II THEMES AND THEMATIC GROUPINGS......Page 398
III GENERAL INDEX......Page 401