T.S. Eliot and Christianity / Barry Spurr. Eliot : form and allusion / Michael O'Neill -- Prufrock and other observations / Anne Stillman -- Banishing the backward devils : Eliot's quatrain poems and "Gerontion" / Rick de Villiers -- With automatic hand : The waste land / Lawrence Rainey -- "Let these words answer" : Ash-Wednesday and the Ariel poems / Sarah Kennedy -- Four quartets / Steve Ellis -- "A precise way of thinking and feeling" : Eliot and verse drama / Anthony Cuda -- T.S. Eliot as literary critic / Helen Thaventhiran -- T.S. Eliot's social criticism / John Xiros Cooper -- Gender and sexuality / Gail McDonald -- Eliot's philosophical studies : Bergson, Frazer, Bradley / Jewel Spears Brooker -- "Anglo-Catholic in religion" : T.S. Eliot and Christianity / Barry Spurr.
Summary:
"Drawing on the latest developments in scholarship and criticism, The New Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot opens up fresh avenues of appreciation and inquiry to a global twenty-first century readership. Emphasizing major works and critical issues, this collection of newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars provides seven full chapters reassessing Eliot's poetry and drama; explores important contemporary critical issues that were untreated in the previous Companion, such as the significance of gender and sexuality; and challenges received accounts of his controversial critical reception. Complete with a chronology of Eliot's life and work and an up-to-date select bibliography, this authoritative and accessible introduction to Eliot's complete oeuvre will be an essential resource for students" --Page 4 of cover.
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