'Crawford's study is illuminating ... Crawford's book establishes anthropology as the major external influence on Eliot's poetry ... a new Scottish poet-critic is announced therefore, and his contribution could be immense. We could do with more' Glasgow Herald

• The beginning of the Wild West; city; savage; waiting for rain; that's all, that's all, that's all, that's all; the savage and the city in the later work.

'Crawford's study is illuminating ... Crawford's book establishes anthropology as the major external influence on Eliot's poetry ... a new Scottish poet-critic is announced therefore, and his contribution could be immense. We could do with more' Glasgow Herald

• The beginning of the Wild West; city; savage; waiting for rain; that's all, that's all, that's all, that's all; the savage and the city in the later work.

'Crawford's study is illuminating ... Crawford's book establishes anthropology as the major external influence on Eliot's poetry ... a new Scottish poet-critic is announced therefore, and his contribution could be immense. We could do with more' Glasgow Herald

• The beginning of the Wild West; city; savage; waiting for rain; that's all, that's all, that's all, that's all; the savage and the city in the later work.