The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot

Jason Harding is Reader in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham. He is the author or editor of five books, including T. S. Eliot in Context (Cambridge, 2011) and The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: Volume 4, English Lion, 1930-1933 (with Ronald Schuchard).

• 1. Unravelling Eliot Jason Harding; 2. Eliot: form and allusion Michael O'Neill; 3. Prufrock and Other Observations Anne Stillman; 4. Banishing the backward devils: Eliot's quatrain poems and 'Gerontion' Rick de Villiers; 5. With automatic hand: The Waste Land Lawrence Rainey; 6. 'Let these words answer': Ash-Wednesday and the Ariel poems Sarah Kennedy; 7. Four Quartets Steve Ellis; 8. 'A precise way of thinking and feeling': Eliot and verse drama Anthony Cuda; 9. T. S. Eliot as literary critic Helen Thaventhiran; 10. T. S. Eliot's social criticism John Xiros Cooper; 11. Gender and sexuality Gail McDonald; 12. Eliot's philosophical studies: Bergson, Frazer, Bradley Jewel Spears Brooker; 13. Anglo-Catholic in religion: T. S. Eliot and Christianity Barry Spurr.

'This volume replaces the 1994 Companion, since when much of Eliot's prose, letters and uncollected poems have finally been published, accompanied by (the editor claims in his preface) a 'seismic upheaval in Eliot scholarship and criticism'.' David Geall, Huntington Library Quarterly