(thomas stearns)

Students often approach the complex poetry of T. S. Eliot with some degree of trepidation, but as this comprehensive text demonstrates, that need not be the case. With its thoughtful analysis and engaging writing style, this guide provides readers with the tools they need to approach Eliot's works with confidence, while at the same time encouraging them to draw their own meaning from the words and sounds of the poetry. The text also explores Eliot's life beyond his poems, including his extensive work as an essayist, editor, and critic. Given this context, readers will establish a deeper understanding of the poet as well as his work.

A compilation of notes that provide explanations of the quotations, allusions, and historical references that appear in nearly thirty poems by T. S. Eliot.

Contains the definitive text of T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Waste Land," and includes detailed explanatory annotation, as well as Eliot's own notes and twenty-five critical essays and reviews.

Studies T.S. Eliot in his roles as a personal and an impersonal poet, a social critic, a religious poet, a traditional poet, and as a modern poet.

Offers a brief introduction to the life and work of T.S. Eliot and explores and analyzes some of his most famous works.

Presents a biography of T.S. Eliot, exploring the scope of his poetic work and his modern legacy. Also tackles issues within Eliot's personal life, considering what brought about these difficulties and how they reflected on his body of work and out interpretation of it.