Reading T. S. Eliot

Dídac Llorens-Cubedo is Associate Professor of English at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Spain). He has published T. S. Eliot and Salvador Espriu: Converging Poetic Imaginations (2013) and co-edited New Literatures of Old: Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literatures (2008) and T. S. Eliot. Teatro Completo (2022).Viorica Patea is Professor of English Literature at the University of Salamanca. She has published books on Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. Her edited books include Short Story Theories (2012), Modernism Revisited (2007) with Paul Scott Derrick, and Ezra Pound & the Spanish World (2024) with John Gery.

• Introduction: ‘Through the First Gate,’ into the Rose Garden and BeyondDídac Llorens-Cubedo and Viorica Patea,Part I The Poet, the Rose Garden, and the Playhouse (1930s)Poetics of the Incarnation: T. S. Eliot’s Four QuartetsBarry SpurrExperiencing Murder in the Cathedral: How Can ‘Indicative Criticism’ Position Audiences to Appreciate the PlayCharles Altieri‘That moment of mystery’: Eliot’s Practical Cats as a Turning PointEster Díaz MorilloTo Speak Poetry: Eliot’s Project to Revive Verse DramaNatalia Carbajosa Palmero‘Chiefly your doing’: Emily Hale and the Making of a PlaywrightSara FitzgeraldPart II Full-Time Dramatist with a Vision (late 1930s-late 1950s)T. S. Eliot and Classical DramaPeter LiebregtsEliot, Aeschylus, and Aristotle: Theme and Plot in The Family ReunionJewel Spears BrookerProtean Self and Anagnorisis through Art in T. S. Eliot’s The Confidential ClerkLeonor María Martínez Serrano‘Proper Sowing’ and ‘right action’ in Eliot’s Plays and Four QuartetsViorica PateaAfter Four Quartets: T. S. Eliot’s Comedies as Footnotes or ExemplaDídac Llorens-CubedoPart III Critic with a Wider Scope (1940s-1960s)To Criticize the Dramatist: Eliot on His PlaysTeresa GibertThe Responsibility of a Christian Thinker: T. S. Eliot, World War 2, and Post War ReconstructionJoana RzepaPatristic Christianity in T. S. Eliot’s Philosophy of EducationJohn Rhett FormanChristopher Dawson and Eliot on Culture and PoliticsBenjamin Lockerd