1 Where is the real T.S.Eliot?or,The Life of the Poet JAMES OLNEY 1
CONTENTS 9
List of contributors 9
Preface 13
2 Eliot as a product of America ERIC SIGG 14
Chronology of Eliot's life and works 15
List of abbreviations 18
3 Eliot as philosopher RICHARD SHUSTERMAN 31
4 T.S.Eliot's critical program TIMOTHY MATERER 48
5 The social critic and his discontents PETER DALE SCOTT 60
6 Religion,literature,and society in the work of T.S.Eliot CLEO MCNELLY KEARNS 77
7 "England and nowhere" ALAN MARSHALL 94
8 Early poems:from"Prufrock"to"Gerontion" J.C.C.MAYS 108
9 Improper desire:reading The Waste Land HARRIET DAVIDSON 121
10 Ash-Wednesday:a poetry of verification JOHN KWAN-TERRY 132
11 Four Quartets:music,word,meaning and value A.DAVID MOODY 142
12 Pereira and after:the cures of Eliot's theater ROBIN GROVE 158
13 "Mature poets steal":Eliot's allusive practice JAMES LONGENBACH 176
14 Eliot's impact on twentieth-century Anglo-American poetry CHARLES ALTIERI 189
15 Tradition and T.S.Eliot JEAN-MICHEL RABAT? 210
16 Eliot:Modernism,Postmodernism,and after BERNARD SHARRATT 223
17 Eliot studies:a review and a select booklist JEWEL SPEARS BROOKER 236
Index 251