'Free of theoretical jargon, the contemporary journal reviews offer vigorous - often partisan, sometimes prescient - assessments. The inescapable diversity of viewpoints illuminates the capacity of Eliot's slender volumes both to shock and satisfy the age in which he lived.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction; Acknowledgments; Prufrock and Other Observations (1917); Poems (1919); Ara Vos Prec (1920); Poems 1920 (1920); The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism; The Waste Land (1922); Homage To John Dryden (1924); Poems 1909–1925 (1925); For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order (1928, 1929); Dante (1929); Marina (1930); Animula (1930); Ash-Wednesday (1930); Selected Essays 1917-1932 (1932); Sweeny Agonistes (1932); The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933); After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy (1934); The Rock (1934); Murder in the Cathedral (1935); Collected Poems 1909–1935 (1936); The Family Reunion (1939); The Idea of a Christian Society (1939); East Coker (1940); Burnt Norton (1941); The Dry Salvages (1941); Little Gidding (1942); Four Quartets (1943); Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948,1949); The Cocktail Party (1949, 1950); The Confidential Clerk (1954); The Elder Statesman (1959).