T. S. Eliot : Man and Poet, vol. 2
T. S. Eliot: Man and Poet is the 11th book in the National Poetry Foundation’s Man/Woman and Poet Series and the fourth commemorative centennial work. Its tone is—appropriately—celebratory. More than one hundred years after his birth (and twenty-five years after his death), Thomas Steams Eliot remains arguably the leading English or American poet of the twentieth century and the author of undeniably its most influential poem. His poetry and criticism were so rapidly and completely enshrined that they—and the New Critical principles of interpretation that they engendered—dominated both poetry and its analysis until well into the 1970s. The echoes of his influence still resound.
The twenty-two essays in this collection testify to the wealth of contemporary criticism and also to the still rich potential of Eliot’s work. The articles, which cover his poetry, plays, and criticism, range widely in both subject and method.
Volume Two is an Annotated Bibliography of a Decade of T. S. Eliot Criticism: 1977-1986