Water/Music in The Waste Land,’ ’T. S. Eliot and the Feminist Revision of the Modern(ist) Canon,’ ‘Buddhist Epistemology in T. S. Eliot’s Theory of Poetry,’ and ’T. S. Eliot and Heraclitus.’
Bush, Ronald, ed. T. S. Eliot: The Modernist in History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Essay topics include ‘Eliot’s Women/Women’s Eliot,’ ‘The Price of Modernism: Publishing The Waste Land,’ ‘The Allusive Poet: Eliot and His Sources,’ and ‘Ara Vos Prec: Eliot’s Negotiation of Satire and Suffering.’
Olney, James, ed. T. S. Eliot: Essays from the Southern Review. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Essay topics include ‘Eliot at Oxford,’ ‘The Significance of T. S. Eliot’s Philosophical Notebooks,’ ‘Substitutes for Christianity in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot,’ and several personal reminiscences.
Readers’ Guide
Southam, B. C. A Guide to the Selected Poems of T S. Eliot. Sixth edition; first U.S. edition. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996. A comprehensive overview with extensive annotations.
Critical Editions
Eliot, Valerie, ed. The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. Reproduces drafts of The Waste Land, showing the editing done by Ezra Pound and discussing the history of the poem’s composition and publication.
Ricks, Christopher, ed. Inventions of the March Hare: Poems, 1909-1917. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996. Presents numerous drafts of Eliot’s early work, published and previously unpublished, with discussion of the poems’ evolution.
Other Works Cited in the Introduction
Eliot, T. S. ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent.’ 1919. Reprinted in Eliot’s The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London: Methuen, 1920.
___. ‘Hamlet and His Problems.’ 1919. Reprinted in Eliot’s The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London: Methuen, 1920.
___. Dante. London: Faber and Faber, 1929.
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