Critical Companion to T. S. Eliot: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (Critical Companion to)

Best known for his works The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot is one of the most popular 20th-century poets studied in high school and college English classes today. Eliot's masterful use of classical allusions throughout his works demonstrates the great importance he placed on tradition and its place within literary history. Believing that the fragments of a once-great culture surrounded the modern world through literature, he used his writing to recreate the past through tradition. Critical Companion to T.S. Eliot explores the life and works of this Nobel Prizewinning writer, with extensive analyses of Eliot's writing, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences. This accessible volume also provides crucial historical and thematic information, along with illustrations, a bibliography, and cross-references. Coverage includes: A concise but comprehensive biography of Eliot; entries on Eliot's major works, including all of his poems, plays, and major critical essays; related people, places, and topics, including friends and literary influences, places where Eliot lived and taught, and publications he wrote for; appendixes, including a chronology, a bibliography of Eliot's works, and a secondary source bibliography. - Publisher Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Part I: Biography......Page 12 Part II: Works A to Z......Page 42 Part III: Related People, Places, and Topics......Page 506 A......Page 508 B......Page 514 C......Page 522 D......Page 527 E......Page 532 F......Page 534 G......Page 537 H......Page 539 J......Page 545 L......Page 547 M......Page 555 P......Page 558 Q......Page 562 R......Page 564 S......Page 567 T, U......Page 575 V......Page 577 W......Page 580 Y......Page 583 Part IV: Appendices......Page 586 T.S. Eliot Chronology......Page 588 Signifianct Publications by T.S. Eliot......Page 594 Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources......Page 596 Index......Page 601 A guide to the author's life and work presents a brief biography; offers synopses of his writings; and discusses important topics and people and places in his life.