T. S. Eliot: A Voice Descanting

Using a variety of approaches from the traditional to the post-modern, this volume brings together essays by 14 scholars who examine T.S.Eliot's poetry and criticism. These essays were written and edited on the occasion of Eliot's birth centenary.

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"Preludes" as prelude - in defense of Eliot as Symboliste, Charles Altieri; "The Waste Land" - a drama of images, Armin Paul Frank; "It is impossible to say just what I mean" - "The Waste Land" as transcendent meaning, Russell Murphy; circles of progress in T.S. Eliot's poetry - "Ash Wednesday" as a model, Lois Cuddy; Eliot, Pound and "Burnt Norton", Keith Alldritt; knowing reality - a reading of "Four Quartets", Patrick Grant; "What is the wind doing?" - winds and their functions in Eliot's poetry, Marrianne Thormahlen; Eliot and the ghost of Poe, Grover Smith; reflections on T.S.Eliot's "vers libre", Peter Egri; scene again, Robin Grove;' Eliot and the mutations of objectivity, Richard Shusterman; T.S.Eliot and F.R. Leavis, G. Singh; Eliot and the poetics of unpleasantness, Shyamal Bagchee; Eliot's significance as a critic - then and now, John Needham; on "Four Quartets", four paintings, David Finn.