Companion to T. S. Eliot

David E. Chinitz, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, is the author of T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003) and of numerous articles. He is currently vice president of the T. S. Eliot Society and chair for interdisciplinary approaches of the Modernist Studies Association.

"As a resource for both scholars and students the book is very strong, and stand-out contributions come from John Xiros Cooper, on Eliot's social critiques (pp. 287-97), and John Timberman Newcomb's reconsideration of Eliot's influence as an editor (pp. 399-410), in which he notes the sometimes overlooked role Eliot played not only in British modernism but also, with Pound, in shaping the public face of the likes of Oppen, Louis Zukofsky, and Marianne Moore. The collection as a whole, finely edited by Chinitz, will be a necessary reference for students." (Ywes, 28 August 2011) "The articles are fully informative, readable and stimulating.  There are mostly free of unnecessary abstraction and of trendy jargon.  Students, teachers and all readers interested in literature and poetry will enjoy-and benefits from- this companion." (Emerald, November 2010)"A Companion to T. S. Eliot is a necessity for any college or university library and a worthwhile investment for your personal library. You will use it and reuse it, and you'll encourage your students to do the same. If Eliot's criticism influenced so much of what came after him, let's hope this volume influences literary scholarship as it's practiced today, inspiring us to teach instead of dazzle, to value quality over quantity, and to "reduce, reuse, and recycle" in order to produce a more sustaining and sustainable body of criticism." (Davidson College, Summer 2010)"This Contextual Encyclopedia is a superb introduction to the wealth and diversity of world literature for school and students-both within and beyond the US-and for the reader." (Reference Reviews, April 2010)

• Notes on Contributors viii Preface xivAcknowledgments xviAbbreviations Used for Works by T. S. Eliot xviiPart I: Infl uences 11 The Poet and the Pressure Chamber: Eliot's Life 3Anthony Cuda2 Eliot's Ghosts: Tradition and its Transformations 15Sanford Schwartz3 T. S. Eliot and the Symbolist City 27Barry J. Faulk4 Not One, Not Two: Eliot and Buddhism 40Christina Hauck5 Yes and No: Eliot and Western Philosophy 53Jewel Spears Brooker6 A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture 66David E. Chinitz7 Mind, Myth, and Culture: Eliot and Anthropology 79Marc Manganaro8 "Where are the eagles and the trumpets?": Imperial Decline and Eliot's Development 91Vincent SherryPart II: Works 105 9 Searching for the Early Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare 107Jayme Stayer10 Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour 120Frances Dickey11 Disambivalent Quatrains 133Jeffrey M. Perl12 "Gerontion": The Mind of Postwar Europe and the Mind(s) of Eliot 145Edward Brunner13 "Fishing, with the arid plain behind me": Diffi culty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land 157Michael Coyle14 The Enigma of "The Hollow Men" 168Elisabeth Däumer15 Sweeney Agonistes: A Sensational Snarl 179Christine Buttram16 "Having to construct": Dissembly Lines in the "Ariel" Poems and Ash-Wednesday 191Tony Sharpe17 "The inexplicable mystery of sound": Coriolan, Minor Poems, Occasional Verses 204Gareth Reeves18 Coming to Terms with Four Quartets 216Lee Oser19 "Away we go": Poetry and Play in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats 228Sarah Bay-Cheng20 Eliot's 1930s Plays: The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and The Family Reunion 239Randy Malamud21 Eliot's "Divine" Comedies: The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman 251Carol H. Smith22 Taking Literature Seriously: Essays to 1927 263Leonard Diepeveen23 He Do the Critic in Different Voices: The Literary Essays after 1927 275Richard Badenhausen24 In Times of Emergency: Eliot's Social Criticism 287John Xiros CooperPart III: Contexts 29925 Eliot's Poetics: Classicism and Histrionics 301Lawrence Rainey26 T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism 311Ann Ardis27 Confl ict and Concealment: Eliot’s Approach to Women and Gender 323Cyrena Pondrom28 Eliot and "Race": Jews, Irish, and Blacks 335Bryan Cheyette29 "The pleasures of higher vices": Sexuality in Eliot's Work 350Patrick Query30 "An occupation for the saint": Eliot as a Religious Thinker 363Kevin J. H. Dettmar31 Eliot's Politics 376Michael Levenson32 Keeping Critical Thought Alive: Eliot's Editorship of the Criterion 388Jason Harding33 Making Modernism: Eliot as Publisher 399John Timberman Newcomb34 Eliot and the New Critics 411Gail McDonald35 "T. S. Eliot rates socko!": Modernism, Obituary, and Celebrity 423Aaron Jaffe36 Eliot's Critical Reception: "The quintessence of twenty-fi rst-century poetry" 436Nancy K. Gish37 Radical Innovation and Pervasive Infl uence: The Waste Land 449James LongenbachBibliography of Works by T. S. Eliot 460Index 463