A Companion to T. S. Eliot

Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years, "A Companion to T.S. Eliot" introduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his life and achievement. It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and career. It explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical. It charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot since the early 1990s. It provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century.

David E. Chinitz, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, is the author of T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003) and of numerous articles. He is currently vice president of the T. S. Eliot Society and chair for interdisciplinary approaches of the Modernist Studies Association.