Steve Ellis is Professor of English at the University of Birmingham, UK and is also a poet and translator. His publications include The English Eliot (Routledge, 1991), Chaucer: An Oxford Guide (OUP, 2005) and Virginia Woolf and the Victorians (CUP 2007).

• Abbreviations and editions of Eliot's works used in the text; Introduction: Eliot's poetry and the use of Eliot's criticism; 1. The early poetry and prose; 2. From The Waste Land to 'The Hollow Men'; 3. 'Ash-Wednesday' and the writing of the 1930s; 4. Four Quartets; Conclusion: new Eliots for old?; Further Reading; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"I can think of few critics better qualified than Steve Ellis to interpret T. S. Eliot to a new generation of readers. This incisive new account of all Eliot's major writings, in both verse and prose, not only provides a comprehensive survey of the best previous criticism; it also offers Ellis's own distinctive insights into Eliot's ouevre, drawing on an unrivalled acquaintance with Europe's literary and religious traditions to situate him within the contexts, of thought, values, ideas and form, which underpin and articulate the writings of this elusive, indispensable and endlessly rewarding poet." - Stan Smith, Research Professor in Literary Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK