T. S. Eliot
The Contemporary Reviews

This volume presents the most comprehensive gathering of reviews of T. S. Eliot's work ever assembled.

Jewel Spears Brooker (Edited by)

9780521382779, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 May 2004

644 pages
23.6 x 16.2 x 3.8 cm, 1.148 kg

'… the volume holds countless surprises … Page after page in this judiciously edited book offers a richer, more nuanced sense of the dialogue that took place between Eliot and his contemporaries, a dialogue that was much more complicated than our increasingly stereotyped view of Eliot's career would allow … an impressive scholarly achievement that will spark useful research and fruitful discussion for years to come. She deserves enormous credit for creating a volume that has wide implications for our understanding of Eliot's oeuvre, carefully registering the fascination and the misgivings that it prompted among his contemporaries. Anyone interested in Eliot's career will want to own this indispensable work.' Modernism/Modernity

Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot was also extremely prolific. T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews is a testament to both these aspects of Eliot's work. In it, Jewel Spears Brooker presents the most comprehensive gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of Eliot's work ever assembled. It includes reviews from both American and British journals. Brooker expands on the major themes of the reviews and shows how the reviews themselves influenced not only Eliot, but also literary history in the twentieth century.

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
Poems (1919)
Ara Vos Prec (1920)
Poems 1920 (1920)
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
The Waste Land (1922)
Homage To John Dryden (1924)
Poems 1909–1925 (1925)
For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order (1928, 1929)
Dante (1929)
Marina (1930)
Animula (1930)
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Selected Essays 1917-1932 (1932)
Sweeny Agonistes (1932)
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933)
After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy (1934)
The Rock (1934)
Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
Collected Poems 1909–1935 (1936)
The Family Reunion (1939)
The Idea of a Christian Society (1939)
East Coker (1940)
Burnt Norton (1941)
The Dry Salvages (1941)
Little Gidding (1942)
Four Quartets (1943)
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948,1949)
The Cocktail Party (1949, 1950)
The Confidential Clerk (1954)
The Elder Statesman (1959).

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]