Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Preface to second edition

pp xi-xvi

Introduction

pp xvii-xxii

1 - The growth of the poet's mind

pp 1-14

PART ONE - 1905–1912 – AN INDIVIDUAL TALENT

pp 15-16

2 - Prufrock observed

pp 17-40

Oxford University Extension Lectures

pp 41-50

PART TWO - 1912–1922 – ‘SHALL I AT LEAST SET MY LANDS IN ORDER?’

pp 51-52

3 - Gerontion, and the historical sense

pp 53-78

4 - Tiresias transformed

pp 79-112

PART THREE - 1922–1930 – ‘ORDINA QUEST’ AMORE, O TU CHE M' AMI'

pp 113-114

5 - The poet saved from himself

pp 115-131

6 - Love through the looking-glass

pp 132-160

PART FOUR - 1931–1939 – THE WORD IN THE DESERT

pp 161-162

7 - The design of the drama

pp 163-181

8 - Dust in sunlight

pp 182-200

PART FIVE - 1939–1945 – APOCALYPSE

pp 201-202

9 - Patriot of fire

pp 203-264

AFTERWORDS

pp 265-266

10 - The Poet observed

pp 267-298

APPENDICES

pp 299-299

A - About the text of the poems

pp 300-309

B - The drafts of The Waste Land

pp 310-318

C - The Christian philosopher and politics between the wars

pp 319-326

D - The secret history of Four Quartets

pp 327-341

E - Artful voices: Eliot's dramatic verse

pp 342-348

Notes

pp 349-378

Index

pp 379-387