Prelude in St. Louis

Frances Dickey, an associate professor of English at the University of Missouri, is the author of The Modern Portrait Poem from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound (2012) and the coeditor of The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts (2016). The editor of Time Present (2013–15) and the president of the T. S. Eliot Society (2016–18), she has also published on Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Walt Whitman, and other American poets.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Beaumont Place1. The Smoke Evil2. The Color Line3. Death Valley4. The Social Evil5. The Waters of St. Louis6. Music from a Farther RoomCodaNotes