Chapter 1 Life 1
Early life,1888-1914 1
A bohemian life,1915-1922 5
Man of letters,1923-1945 12
The sage,1945-1965 19
Chapter 2 Contexts 22
Early influences 22
France 23
England 25
Religion 26
Philosophy 27
Culture and society 29
Romanticism and classicism 31
A sense of the past 35
Chapter 3 Works 37
Early poems 41
"Portrait of a Lady" 46
"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" 48
"The Hollow Men" 55
"Gerontion" 56
Poems 1920 59
The Waste Land 62
The Ariel poems and Ash-Wednesday 80
Plays 88
Cultural criticism 89
Four Quartets 92
Reevaluation 107
Chapter 4 Critical reception 109
Notes 117
The works of T.S.Eliot 120
Further reading 121
Index 124