Eliot’s Poetry

T. S. Eliot

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Further Reading

Eliot, T. S. Collected Poems 1909-1962. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

Eliot, T. S. Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

Gordon, Lyndall. T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. New York: Norton, 1998.

Howe, Elizabeth. The Dramatic Monologue. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Kenner, Hugh. The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot. London: Methuen, 1995.

Lobb, Edward, ed. Words in Time: New Essays on Eliot’s “Four Quartets.” Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Moody, A. David, ed. The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Rainey, Lawrence. Institutions of Modernism: literary elites and public culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Zwerdling, Alex. Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London. Perseus Books, 1998.

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