Companion to T. S. Eliot

David E. Chinitz, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, is the author of T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003) and Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes (2013). He is currently first vice president of the Modernist Studies Association and past president of the T. S. Eliot Society.

• Notes on Contributors viiiPreface xivAcknowledgments xviAbbreviations Used for Works by T. S. Eliot xviiPart I: Influences 11 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot’s Life 3Anthony Cuda2 Eliot’s Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations 15Sanford Schwartz3 T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist City 27Barry J. Faulk4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism 40Christina Hauck5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy 53Jewel Spears Brooker6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture 66David E. Chinitz7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology 79Marc Manganaro8 “Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”: Imperial Decline and Eliot’s Development 91Vincent SherryPart II: Works 1059 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare 107Jayme Stayer10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour 120Frances Dickey11 Disambivalent Quatrains 133Jeffrey M. Perl12 “Gerontion”: The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot 145Edward Brunner13 “Fishing, with the arid plain behind me”: Difficulty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land 157Michael Coyle14 The Enigma of “The Hollow Men” 168Elisabeth Däumer15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl 179Christine Buttram16 “Having to construct”: Dissembly Lines in the “Ariel” Poems and Ash-Wednesday 191Tony Sharpe17 “The inexplicable mystery of sound”: Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses 204Gareth Reeves18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets 216Lee Oser19 “Away we go”: Poetry and Play in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats 228Sarah Bay-Cheng20 Eliot’s 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion 239Randy Malamud21 Eliot’s “Divine” Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman 251Carol H. Smith22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927 263Leonard Diepeveen23 He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 275Richard Badenhausen24 In Times of Emergency: Eliot’s Social Criticism 287John Xiros CooperPart III: Contexts 29925 Eliot’s Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics 301Lawrence Rainey26 T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism 311Ann Ardis27 Conflict and Concealment: Eliot’s Approach to Women and Gender 323Cyrena Pondrom28 Eliot and “Race”: Jews, Irish, and Blacks 335Bryan Cheyette29 “The pleasures of higher vices”: Sexuality in Eliot’s Work 350Patrick Query30 “An occupation for the saint”: Eliot as a Religious Thinker 363Kevin J. H. Dettmar31 Eliot’s Politics 376Michael Levenson32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot’s Editorship of the Criterion 388Jason Harding33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher 399John Timberman Newcomb34 Eliot and the New Critics 411Gail McDonald35 “T. S. Eliot rates socko!”: Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity 423Aaron Jaffe36 Eliot’s Critical Reception: “The quintessence of twenty-first-century poetry” 436Nancy K. Gish37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Influence: The Waste Land 449James LongenbachBibliography of Works by T. S. Eliot 460Index 463