The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism

Overview: THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (1888-1965) was an American essayist, playwright, literary and social critic. He was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 and renounced his American citizenship. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." First published in 1920, this is T.S. Eliot's first collection of literary criticism. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, including Tradition and the Individual Talent, Hamlet and His Problems, and Eliot's thoughts on Marlowe, Jonson, Massinger and Dante.