Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xvi
Abbreviations Used for Works by T. S. Eliot xvii
Part I: Infl uences 1
1 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life 3 Anthony Cuda
2 Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations 15 Sanford Schwartz
3 T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist City 27 Barry J. Faulk
4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism 40 Christina Hauck
5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy 53 Jewel Spears Brooker
6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture 66 David E. Chinitz
7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology 79 Marc Manganaro
8 "Where are the eagles and the trumpets?": Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development 91 Vincent Sherry
Part II: Works 105
9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare 107 Jayme Stayer
10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour 120 Frances Dickey
11 Disambivalent Quatrains 133 Jeffrey M. Perl
12 "Gerontion": The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot 145 Edward Brunner
13 "Fishing, with the arid plain behind me": Diffi culty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land 157 Michael Coyle
14 The Enigma of "The Hollow Men" 168 Elisabeth Däumer
15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl 179 Christine Buttram
16 "Having to construct": Dissembly Lines in the "Ariel" Poems and Ash-Wednesday 191 Tony Sharpe
17 "The inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses 204 Gareth Reeves
18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets 216 Lee Oser
19 "Away we go": Poetry and Play in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats 228 Sarah Bay-Cheng
20 Eliot's 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion 239 Randy Malamud
21 Eliot's "Divine" Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman 251 Carol H. Smith
22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927 263 Leonard Diepeveen
23 He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 275 Richard Badenhausen
24 In Times of Emergency: Eliot's Social Criticism 287 John Xiros Cooper
Part III: Contexts 299
25 Eliot's Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics 301 Lawrence Rainey
26 T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism 311 Ann Ardis
27 Confl ict and Concealment: Eliot’s Approach to Women and Gender 323 Cyrena Pondrom
28 Eliot and "Race": Jews, Irish, and Blacks 335 Bryan Cheyette
29 "The pleasures of higher vices": Sexuality in Eliot's Work 350 Patrick Query
30 "An occupation for the saint": Eliot as a Religious Thinker 363 Kevin J. H. Dettmar
31 Eliot's Politics 376 Michael Levenson
32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of the Criterion 388 Jason Harding
33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher 399 John Timberman Newcomb
34 Eliot and the New Critics 411 Gail McDonald
35 "T. S. Eliot rates socko!": Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity 423 Aaron Jaffe
36 Eliot's Critical Reception: "The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry" 436 Nancy K. Gish
37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Infl uence: The Waste Land 449 James Longenbach
Bibliography of Works by T. S. Eliot 460
Index 463