A Companion to T. S. Eliot (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

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