A Companion to T. S. Eliot

Preface xiv

Acknowledgments xvi

Abbreviations Used for Works by T. S. Eliot xvii

Part I: Infl uences 1

1 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life 3
Anthony Cuda

2 Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations 15
Sanford Schwartz

3 T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist City 27
Barry J. Faulk

4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism 40
Christina Hauck

5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy 53
Jewel Spears Brooker

6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture 66
David E. Chinitz

7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology 79
Marc Manganaro

8 "Where are the eagles and the trumpets?": Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development 91
Vincent Sherry

Part II: Works 105

9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare 107
Jayme Stayer

10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour 120
Frances Dickey

11 Disambivalent Quatrains 133
Jeffrey M. Perl

12 "Gerontion": The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot 145
Edward Brunner

13 "Fishing, with the arid plain behind me": Diffi culty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land 157
Michael Coyle

14 The Enigma of "The Hollow Men" 168
Elisabeth Däumer

15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl 179
Christine Buttram

16 "Having to construct": Dissembly Lines in the "Ariel" Poems and Ash-Wednesday 191
Tony Sharpe

17 "The inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses 204
Gareth Reeves

18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets 216
Lee Oser

19 "Away we go": Poetry and Play in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats 228
Sarah Bay-Cheng

20 Eliot's 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion 239
Randy Malamud

21 Eliot's "Divine" Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman 251
Carol H. Smith

22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927 263
Leonard Diepeveen

23 He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 275
Richard Badenhausen

24 In Times of Emergency: Eliot's Social Criticism 287
John Xiros Cooper

Part III: Contexts 299

25 Eliot's Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics 301
Lawrence Rainey

26 T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism 311
Ann Ardis

27 Confl ict and Concealment: Eliot’s Approach to Women and Gender 323
Cyrena Pondrom

28 Eliot and "Race": Jews, Irish, and Blacks 335
Bryan Cheyette

29 "The pleasures of higher vices": Sexuality in Eliot's Work 350
Patrick Query

30 "An occupation for the saint": Eliot as a Religious Thinker 363
Kevin J. H. Dettmar

31 Eliot's Politics 376
Michael Levenson

32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of the Criterion 388
Jason Harding

33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher 399
John Timberman Newcomb

34 Eliot and the New Critics 411
Gail McDonald

35 "T. S. Eliot rates socko!": Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity 423
Aaron Jaffe

36 Eliot's Critical Reception: "The quintessence of twenty-fi rst-century poetry" 436
Nancy K. Gish

37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Infl uence: The Waste Land 449
James Longenbach

Bibliography of Works by T. S. Eliot 460

Index 463