Front Matter -- Influences. The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life / Anthony Cuda -- Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations / Sanford Schwartz -- T.S. Eliot and the Symbolist City / Barry J Faulk -- Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism / Christina Hauck -- Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy / Jewel Spears Brooker -- A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture / David E Chinitz -- Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology / Marc Manganaro -- ₃Where are the Eagles and the Trumpets?₄: Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development / Vincent Sherry -- Works. Searching for the Early Eliot: / Jayme Stayer -- : A Walking Tour / Frances Dickey -- Disambivalent Quatrains / Jeffrey M Perl -- ₃Gerontion₄: The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot / Edward Brunner -- ₃Fishing, with the arid plain behind me₄: Diffculty, Deferral, and Form in / Michael Coyle -- The Enigma of ₃The Hollow Men₄ / Elisabeth D̃umer -- : A Sensational Snarl / Christine Buttram -- ₃Having to construct₄: Dissembly Lines in the ₃Ariel₄ Poems and / Tony Sharpe -- ₃The Inexplicable Mystery of Sound₄:, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses / Gareth Reeves -- Coming to Terms with / Lee Oser -- ₃Away we go₄: Poetry and Play in and Andrew Lloyd Webber's / Sarah Bay-Cheng -- Eliot's 1930s Plays:, and / Randy Malamud -- Eliot's ₃Divine₄ Comedies:, and / Carol H Smith -- Taking Literature : Essays to 1927 / Leonard Diepeveen -- He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 / Richard Badenhausen -- In Times of Emergency: Eliot's Social Criticism / John Xiros Cooper -- Contexts. Eliot's Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics / Lawrence Rainey -- T.S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism / Ann Ardis -- Conflict and Concealment: Eliot's Approach to Women and Gender / Cyrena Pondrom -- Eliot and ₃Race₄: Jews, Irish, and Blacks / Bryan Cheyette -- ₃The pleasures of higher vices₄: Sexuality in Eliot's Work / Patrick Query -- ₃An Occupation for the Saint₄: Eliot as a Religious Thinker / Kevin J H Dettmar -- Eliot's Politics / Michael Levenson -- Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of the / Jason Harding -- Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher / John Timberman Newcomb -- Eliot and the New Critics / Gail McDonald -- ₃T. S. Eliot rates socko!₄: Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity / Aaron Jaffe -- Eliot's Critical Reception: ₃The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry₄ / Nancy K Gish -- Radical Innovation and Pervasive Influence: / James Longenbach -- Bibliography of Works by T.S. Eliot -- Index. Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his life and achievement. It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and careerIt explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a var The poet and the pressure chamber: Eliot's life / Anthony Cuda -- Eliot's ghosts: tradition and its transformations / Sanford Schwartz -- T.S. Eliot and the symbolist city / Barry J. Faulk -- Not one, not two: Eliot and Buddhism / Christina Hauck -- Yes and no: Eliot and Western philosophy / Jewel Spears Brooker -- A vast wasteland? Eliot and popular culture / David E. Chinitz -- Mind, myth, and culture: Eliot and anthropology / Marc Manganaro -- "Where are the eagles and the trumpets?": Imperial decline and Eliot's development / Vincent Sherry -- Searching for the early Eliot: Inventions of the march hare / Jayme Stayer -- Prufrock and other observations: a walking tour / Frances Dickey -- Disambivalent quatrains / Jeffrey M. Perl -- "Gerontion": the mind of postwar Europe and the mind(s) of Eliot / Edward Brunner -- "Fishing, with the arid plain behind me": difficulty, deferral, and form in The waste land / Michael Coyle -- The enigma of "The hollow men" / Elisabeth Däumer -- Sweeney agonistes: a sensational snarl / Christine Buttram -- "Having to construct": dissembly lines in the "Ariel" poems and Ash-Wednesday / Tony Sharpe -- "The inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, minor poems, occasional verses / Gareth Reeves -- Coming to terms with Four quartets / Lee Oser -- "Away we go": poetry and play in Old Possum's book of practical cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats / Sarah Bay-Cheng -- Eliot's 1930s plays: The rock, Murder in the cathedral, and The family reunion / Randy Malamud -- Eliot's "divine" comedies: The cocktail party, The confidential clerk, and The elder statesman / Carol H. Smith -- Taking literature seriously: essays to 1927 / Leonard Diepeveen -- He do the critic in different voices: the literary essays after 1927 / Richard Badenhausen -- In times of emergency: Eliot's social criticism / John Xiros Cooper -- Eliot's poetics: classicism and histrionics / Lawrence Rainey -- T.S. Eliot and something called modernism / Ann Ardis -- Conflict and concealment: Eliot's approach to women and gender / Cyrena Pondrom -- Eliot and "race": Jews, Irish, and blacks / Bryan Cheyette -- "The pleasures of higher vices": sexuality in Eliot's work / Patrick Query -- "An occupation for the saint": Eliot as a religious thinker / Kevin J.H. Dettmar -- Eliot's politics / Michael Levenson -- Keeping critical thought alive: Eliot's editorship of the Criterion / Jason Harding -- Making modernism: Eliot as publisher / John Timberman Newcomb -- Eliot and the new critics / Gail McDonald -- "T. S. Eliot rates socko!": Modernism, obituary, and celebrity / Aaron Jaffe -- Eliot's critical reception: "the quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry" / Nancy K. Gish -- Radical innovation and positive influence: The waste land / James Longenbach.
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