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Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, A Companion to T.S. Eliot introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his life and achievement. It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and careerIt explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophicalIt charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot since the early 1990sIt provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century
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A Companion to T. S. Eliot Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. Published Recently 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. A A A A A Companion Companion Companion Companion Companion to to to to to Shakespeare’s Sonnets Satire William Faulkner the History of the Book Emily Dickinson 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. A A A A A A A Companion Companion Companion Companion Companion Companion Companion to to to to to to to Digital Literary Studies Charles Dickens James Joyce Latin American Literature and Culture the History of the English Language Henry James the British and Irish Short Story 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. A A A A A A A A Companion Companion Companion Companion Companion Companion Companion Companion to to to to to to to to Jane Austen the Arthurian Literature the Modern American Novel: 1900–1950 the Global Renaissance Thomas Hardy T. S. Eliot Samuel Beckett Twentieth-Century United States Fiction Edited by Michael Schoenfeldt Edited by Ruben Quintero Edited by Richard C. Moreland Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose Edited by Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz Edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman Edited by David Paroissien Edited by Richard Brown Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren Edited by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto Edited by Greg Zacharias Edited by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm Edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite Edited by Helen Fulton Edited by John T. Matthews Edited by Jyotsna G. Singh Edited by Keith Wilson Edited by David E. Chinitz Edited by S. E. Gontarski Edited by David Seed For more information on the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series, please visit www.wiley.com A CO M PA NION TO T. S. E LIOT EDITED BY DAVID E. CHINITZ A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition first published 2009 © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd except for editorial material and organization © 2009 David E. Chinitz Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate,