Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet

• Preface to second edition; Introduction; 1. The growth of the poet's mind; Part I. 1905 –1912 - An Individual Talent: 2. Prufrock observed; Part II. 1912–1922 -'Shall I at Least Set My Lands in Order?': 3. 'Gerontion', and the historical sense; 4. Tiresias transformed; Part III. 1922–1930 - 'Ordina Quest' Amore, O Tu Che M'ami': 5. The poet saved from himself; 6. Love through the looking-glass; Part IV. 1931–1939 -The Word In the Desert: 7. The design of the drama; 8. Dust in sunlight; Part V. 1939–1945 - Apocalypse: 9. Patriot of fire; 10. The poet observed; Appendices; Notes; Index.

'Moody's book seems to me the best, the most far-reaching, the most perceptive, book on Eliot. I know no other which is as helpfully devoted to Eliot, devoted, not devout.' Denis Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement