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Eliot, T.S.
British b.1888. d.1965

  1. In American Critical Essays. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. pp. 180-201.
    Criticism -- Works

  2. In Auchincloss, Louis. The Style's the Man. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, c1994. pp. 47-52.
    Criticism -- The Waste Land

  3. In Balakian, Nona. Critical Encounters. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merill, 1978. pp. 115-120.
    Criticism -- Works -- Plays

  4. In Basler, Roy P. Sex, Symbolism, and Psychology in Literature. New York: Octagon Books, Inc., 1967. pp. 203-226.
    Criticism -- "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

  5. In Berryman, John. The Freedom of the Poet. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1976]. pp. 270-278.
    Criticism -- "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

  6. In Blackmur, R.P. The Double Agent: Essays in Craft and Elucidation. Gloucester, MA, P. Smith, 1962. pp. 184-218.
    Criticism -- Works -- Christianity in Literature -- Ash Wednesday -- Murder in the Cathedral -- The Rock

  7. In Blackmur, R. P. Form and Value in Modern Poetry. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957 [c1952]. pp. 121-182.
    Criticism -- Works -- Christianity in Literature -- Ash Wednesday -- Four Quartets -- Murder in the Cathedral -- The Rock

  8. In Blackmur, R. P. Selected Essays of R.P. Blackmur. New York: Ecco Press, 1986. pp. 197-225.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Four Quartets

  9. In Blamires, Harry. Twentieth Century English Literature. New York: Schocken, 1982. pp. 97-103.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  10. In Bloom, Harold, ed. The Epic. Philadelphia, Chelsea House, 2005. pp. 2245-237.
    Criticism -- The Waste Land

  11. In Bowra, C. M. The Creative Experiment. London, Melbourne: Macmillan, 1967. pp. 159-188.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- The Waste Land

  12. In Brett, R. L. Reason & Imagination: A Study of Form and Meaning in Four Poems. London, New York: Published for the University of Hull by Oxford University Press, [1961]. pp. 108-135.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Four Quartets

  13. In Broadbent, J. B. Poetic Love. Barnes & Noble, [1965]. pp. 113-125.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  14. In Brooks, Cleanth. The Hidden God: Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1963. pp. 68-97.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Four Quartets - The Waste Land

  15. In Brooks, Cleanth, ed. Tragic Themes in Western Literature. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1955. pp. 150-177.
    Criticism -- Murder in the Catherdral

  16. In Brooks, Cleanth. Understanding Poetry. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960. pp. 386-400.
    Criticism -- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

  17. In Broussard, Louis. American Drama. University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. pp. 69-91.
    Criticism -- Plays

  18. In Bryer, Jackson. Fifteen Modern American Authors. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1969. pp. 139-174.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  19. In Buckley, Vincent. Poetry and the Sacred. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1968. pp. 205-237.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Four Quartets

  20. In Clurman, Harold. The Divine Pastime. New York, Macmillan, 1974. pp. 40-44.
    Criticism -- The Cocktail Party

  21. In Clurman, Harold. Naked Image. New York, Macmillan, 1966. pp. 179-184.
    Criticism -- The Cocktail Party -- The Confidential Clerk

  22. In Davie, Donald. The Poet in the Imaginary Museum: Essays of Two Decades. New York: Persea Books, c1977. pp. 32-41.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Four Quartets

  23. In Dobrée, Bonamy. The Lamp and the Lute: Studies in Six Modern Authors. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963. pp. 107-133.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  24. In Donoghue, Denis. England, Their England: Commentaries on English Language and Literature. New York: Knopf, 1988. pp. 241-266.
    Criticism -- Four Quartets

  25. In Evans, B, Ifor. Tradition and Romanticism. Hamden, Connecticut, Archon, 1964. pp. 192-200.
    Criticism -- Paradise Lost --

  26. In Fergusson, Francis. The Idea of a Theater. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1949. pp. 210-221.
    Criticism -- Murder in the Cathedral

  27. In Finkelstein, Sidney. Existentialism and Alienation in American Literature. New York, International Publishers, 1965. pp. 173-183.
    Criticism -- Works

  28. In Forster, E.M. Abinger Harvest. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. pp. 89-96.
    Criticism -- Works -- "The Waste Land"

  29. In Frankenberg, Lloyd. Invitation to Poetry. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1956. pp. 39-120, 241-242
    Criticism -- Works -- "Burnt Norton" -- "Dans le Restaurant" -- "Dry Salvages" -- The Family Reunion -- Four Quartets -- "Geronation" -- "Little Gidding" -- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -- "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" -- "Tradition and the Individual Talent" -- "The Waste Land"

  30. In Gascoigne, Barbara. Twentieth Century Drama . London [Hutchinson 1963, c1962]. pp. 158-165.
    Criticism -- Plays -- The Confidental Clerk -- The Cocktail Party -- The Elder Statesman -- The Family Reunion -- Murder in the Cathedral

  31. In Gray, Wallace. Homer to Joyce. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, c1985. pp. 197-225.
    Criticism -- The Waste Land

  32. In Harding, D.W. Experience into Words. New York Horizon Press, 1964. pp. 104-162.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Plays -- "Ash-Wednesday" -- "The Cocktail Party" -- Collected Poems, 1909-1935 -- "The Confidential Clerk" -- "The Dry Salvages" -- "The Elder Statesman" -- "The Family Reunion" -- Four Quartets -- "The Hollow Men" -- "The Rock" -- The Rock, Book of Words

  33. In Harrison, John R. The Reactionaries. New York, Schocken Books, 1967. pp. 145-162.
    Criticism -- Works -- Poetry -- Politics in Literature -- The Waste Land

  34. In Henderson, Philip. The Poet and Society. Folcroft, Pa., Folcroft Press, 1969. pp. 154-171.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "The Waste Land"

  35. In Henn, T. R. The Harvest of Tragedy. London: Methuen, [1956]. pp. 217-232.
    Criticism -- Plays -- The Cocktail Party -- The Family Reunion -- Murder in the Cathedral

  36. In Highet, Gilbert. The Powers of Poetry. New York, Oxford University Press, 1960. pp. 135-142, 293-300, 323-329.
    Criticism -- Works -- "Coriolan" -- The Waste Land

  37. In Kazin, Alfred. An American Procession. New York: Knopf, 1984. pp. 310-320.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- The Waste Land

  38. In Kazin, Alfred God and the American Writer . New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. pp. 194-214, plus see index.
    Criticism -- God in Literature -- Works -- "Ash-Wednesday" -- "Burnt Norton" -- Four Quartets -- "Gerontion" -- "Love Song of J. Alred Prufrock" -- "Sin is Behovely" -- The Waste Land

  39. In Kreuzer, James R., and Cogan, Lee. Modern Writings on Major English Authors. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1963]. pp. 652-686.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "Ash-Wednesday" -- Gerontion -- "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -- The Waste Land

  40. In Leaska, Mitchell A. The Voice of Tragedy. New York: R. Speller, [1964, c1963]. pp. 249-262.
    Criticism -- Works -- Family Reunion -- Murder in the Cathedral

  41. In Levin, Harry. Memories of the Moderns .New York : New Directions, 1980. pp. 35-46.
    Criticism -- The Wasteland

  42. In Lewis, Allan. The Contemporary Theatre. New York: Knopf, 1956. pp. 143-168.
    Criticism -- The Cocktail Party

  43. In Lowell, Robert. Collected Prose. New York, Farrar, Staus, Giroux, 1987. pp. 45-52.
    Criticism -- Four Quartets -- The Waste Land

  44. In Lumley, Frederick New Trends in 20th Century Drama. New York, Oxford University Press, 1967. pp. 115-125.
    Criticism -- Works -- Plays

  45. In McNeir, Waldo, ed. Studies in American Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960. pp. 49-57.
    Criticism -- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

  46. In Morris, Wright. Earthly Delights, Unearthly Adornments. New York: Harper & Row, c1978. pp. 95-103.
    Criticism -- "East Coker" -- The Waste Land

  47. In Muller, Herbert J. The Spirit of Tragedy. New York: Knopf, 1956. pp. 293-301.
    Criticism -- Plays -- The Cocktail Party -- Family Reunion -- Murder in the Cathedral

  48. In Murdoch, Iris. Existentialists and Mystics . New York : Allen Lane, 1998. pp. 161-170.
    Criticism -- Literary Criticism

  49. In Nightingale, Benedict. A Reader's Guide to Fifty Modern British Plays. London : Heinemann ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1982. pp. 114-120.
    Criticism -- Plays -- "The Cocktail Party" -- "Murder in the Catherdral" --

  50. In Oldsey, Bernard. Visions and Revisions in Modern American Literary Criticism. New York, Dutton, 1962. pp. 97-129.
    Criticism -- The Waste Land

  51. In Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry, Volume 2. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987. pp. 3-31.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Ash Wednesday -- Four Quartets -- "The Hollow Men"

  52. In Perrine, Laurence, ed. 100 American Poems of the Twentieth Century. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. pp. 103-134.
    Criticism -- "Journey of the Magi" -- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -- "Preludes" -- "The Waste Land"

  53. In Poirier, Richard. Trying It Out in America . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. pp. 78-103.
    Criticism -- Works

  54. In Porter, Thomas E. Myth and Modern American Drama. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969. pp. 53-76.
    Criticism -- The Cocktail Party

  55. In Powell, Dilys. Descent from Parnassus. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1969. pp. 55-100.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "Ash Wednesday" -- "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" -- "Journey of the Magi" -- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -- "Morning at the Window" -- "Portrait of a Lady" -- "Preludes"-- "The Rock" -- "Sweeney Agonistes" --"The Waste Land"

  56. In Pritchard, William. Seeing Through Everything . New York : Oxford University Press, 1977. pp. 51-69, 209-223.
    Criticism -- Works -- Literary Criticism -- Four Quartets -- "Gerontion" -- The Waste Land --

  57. In Rahv, Philip. Literature and the Sixth Sense. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. pp. 309-315, 345-350.
    Criticism -- Plays -- Murder in the Cathedral

  58. In Rahv, Philip. Literature in America. New York: Meridian Books, 1957. pp. 334-341.
    Criticism -- The Waste Land

  59. In Rosenthal, M. L. The Modern Poets. New York, Oxford University Press, 1960. pp. 75-103, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Works -- Poetry -- "Burnt Norton" -- "The Dry Salvages -- "East Coker" -- Four Quartets -- "Fragment of Agon" -- "Gerontion" -- "Hamlet" -- "Little Gidding -- "Portrait of a Lady" -- "Preludes" -- "Sweeney Among the Nightingales -- The Waste Land

  60. In Seward, Barbara. The Symbolic Rose. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960, [c1954]. pp. 156-186.
    Criticism -- "Ash Wednesday" -- "Burnt Norton" -- "Dry Salvage" -- "East Coker" -- The Family Reunion -- Four Quartets -- "Little Gidding"

  61. In Styan, J. L. The Dark Comedy. Cambridge, Eng., University Press, 1962. pp. 178-187.
    Criticism -- Plays

  62. In Symons, Julian. Makers of the New. New York: Random House, 1987. See index.
    Criticism -- Works

  63. "T. S. Eliot (1958)." In Paris Review: Interviews, Vol. II. NY, Picador, 2006. pp. 62-85.
    Interview

  64. In Tate, Alan. Collected Essays. Denver, A. Swallow, 1959. pp. 341-349.
    Criticism -- Ash Wednesday --

  65. In Thorp, Willard. American Writing in the Twentieth Century . Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960. pp. 203-211, 306-316.
    Criticism -- Works -- Poetry -- Literary Criticism -- Four Quartets -- The Waste Land

  66. In Trilling, Lionel. Prefaces to the Experience of Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1979. pp. 274-283.
    Criticism -- The Waste Land

  67. In Vahanian, Gabriel. Wait Without Idols. New York: G. Braziller, 1964. pp. 207-225.
    Criticism -- Works -- Plays -- The Waste Land -- God in Literature

  68. In Val Baker, Denys, ed. Writers of To-day. Folcroft, Pa., Folcroft Library Editions, 1973. pp. 139-153.
    Criticism -- Works -- "Ash Wednesday" -- "Burnt Norton" -- "Dry Salvages" -- "East Coker" -- Four Quartets -- "Little Gidding" -- Murder in the Cathedral -- The Waste Land

  69. In Vendler, Helen. Part of Nature, Part of Us. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1980. pp. 77-86.
    Criticism -- The Waste Land

  70. In Vendler, Helen, ed. Voices and Visions: The Poet in America. New York: Random House, c1987. pp. 277-312.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Poetry -- Ash Wednesday -- "Baudelaire" -- East Coker -- Four Quartets -- The Hollow Men -- "In Memory" -- Little Gidding -- Murder in the Cathedral -- "Tradition and the Individual Talent" -- The Waste Land

  71. In Williams, Raymond. Drama, From Ibsen to Eliot. London: Chatto & Windus, [1952]. pp. 223-246.
    Criticism -- Plays

  72. In Wimsatt, W.K. Hateful Contraries: Studies in Literature and Criticism. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1965. pp. 184-212.
    Criticism -- The Cocktail Party -- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" --

  73. In Wood, James. The Broken Estate. New York : Random House, c1999. pp. 128-142.
    Criticism -- Works -- Antisemitism in Literature -- "Gerontion" -- "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" -- "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" -- "The Waste Land"

  74. In Woodhouse, A.S.P. The Poet and His Faith . Chicago, IL, Univ. of Chicago Press, pp. 267-288.
    Criticism -- Works -- "Ash Wednesday" -- "Burnt Norton" -- "Dry Salvages" -- "The Four Quartets" -- "The Journey of the Magi" -- "Little Gidding" -- "The Waste Land"

  75. In Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series. New York: Viking Press, 1959. pp. 89-110.
    Interviews

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