July 7, 1995
Bibliography on T.S. Eliot
(arranged chronologically)

Bibliography
| Biography | Anthologies |Overviews
|
Philosophy & Intellectual Development
| On the Criticism |
On Individual Works
Bibliography
- Brooker, Jewel Spears. "Eliot Studies: A Review and a Select Booklist."
In The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot, ed. A David Moody
(1994): 236-50.
- Up-to-date bibliographic essay covering major historical
perspectives and most recent trends. See also her discussion of Eliot
materials in Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1988):
3-38, and the Works Cited List in the same volume: 185-95.
- Knowles, D.G. and Scott A Leonard. An Annotated Bibliography of
a Decade of T.S. Eliot Criticism: 1977-1986. T.S. Eliot: Man and Poet.
Vol II. Orono ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1992.
- Cited by Brooker in Moody 240; 249. xeroxed (R/PC)
- Canary, Robert H. T.S. Eliot: The Poet and His Critics.
Chicago: American Library Association, 1982. (R/PC)
- A series of bibliographical essays on criticism about
aspects of Eliot's work. Has excellent and very useful index.
- Martin, Mildred. A Half-Century of Eliot Criticism: An Annotated
Bibliography of Books and Articles in English, 1916-1965. .buck
1972. (R)
- Extremely useful guide to the dizzying amount of criticism
written about Eliot. Accurate and well-indexed.
- Gallup, Donald C. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. London: Faber
and Faber, 1969.
- Primary biblio: lists all of Eliot's published work.
Lists periodical publications by year; the source for finding uncollected
essays and reviews by Eliot; a model of scrupulous detail. (R)
Biography
- Gordon, Lyndall, Eliot's New Life. NYC: Farrar, Strauss,
and Giroux, 1988.
- Sequel to previous volume. Authorized biography; covers
,last half of Eliot's life, from 1923 conversion on.
- Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot: A Life. NYC: Simon and Shuster,
1984.
- Although not sanctioned by the Eliot estate, and therefore
without quotations from the works, a very useful biography. Deals forthrightly
with sexual issues.
- Behr, Caroline. T.S. Eliot: A Chronology of his Life and Works. The
Macmillan Press, 1983. (R)
- Gordon, Lyndall, Eliot's Early Years. NY: Oxford, 1977.
- The closest thing available to an authorized biography;
she was given unusual access to MS by Valerie Eliot and is thus sometimes
only source for some quotations. Goes up to conversion in 1923. Good
and enlightening though orthodox.
- Miller, James E. T.S. Eliot's Personal Wasteland: Exorcism of the Demons.
.penn 1977. (R)
- Despite gratuitously sensational thesis about TSE's
latent homosexuality, this is one of the best books available on Eliot.
Chapter 4(?) on the criticism traces TSE's use of the concept "emotion."
Anthologies
(*means Table of Contents has been xeroxed and is in TSE BIBLIO notebook
in EKS's office)
Overviews
- Bush, Ronald. T.S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style. (1983)(R)
- Jay, Greg S. T.S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State UP, 1983. (R)
- One of the best recent books; a model of how to use
deconstruction and historical study of influence.
- Miller, J. Hillis. Poets of Reality (1974), Chapter 4, pp.><.
- Phenomenological approach: images of consciousness
in space and time in the poetry
- Mayer, John T. T.S. Eliot's Silent Voices. Oxford UP, 02/1990. CUL: PS3509
.L43 Z785 1989 (R) Detailed analysis of poetry up through WL, concentrating
on dramatic monologue and shifting points of view.
- Ellmann, Maud. The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Harvester Press, 1987; Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1987. Sophisticated, deconstructive
readings of poetry, but quite useful.
- Frye, Northrop. T.S. Eliot. New York: Grove Press, 1963. Mostly a study
of archetypal images in the poetry, but some off-hand comments about the
criticism.
- Kenner, Hugh, The Invisible Poet (1959) (R) Old, but classic. Kenner is
a brilliant critic of Joyce and Pound, knows the milieu better than anybody
and is a joy to read.
- Smith, Grover. T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1950;1974) (R) The most
comprehensive and detailed guide available to the many allusions and references
in Elliot's work; an indispensable reader's companion.
On the Criticism
- Bezel, Nail. "Pursuit and Pattern in Eliot's Criticism." English Studies
75.1 (Jan 1994): 62 (11).
- Materer, Timothy. "T.S. Eliot's Critical Program." 48-59. In The Cambridge
Companion to T.S. Eliot, ed. A. David Moody (1994).
- Asher, Kenneth. "T.S. Eliot and the New Criticism." Essays in Literature
20.2 (Fall 1993): 292 (18).
- Guillory, John. "The Ideology of Canon Formation: T.S. Eliot and Cleanth
Brooks." Critical Inquiry 10.1 (September 1983): 173-198.
- Liebman, Sheldon. "The Turning Point: Eliot's The Use of Poetry and the
Uses of Criticism." Boundary 2 9.2 (Winter 1981): 197-218.
- O'Hara, Daniel. "'The Unsummoned Image': T.S. Eliot's Unclassical Criticism."
Boundary 2, 9.1 (Fall 1980): 91-124.
- Chalker, John. "Authority and Personality in Eliot's Criticism." 194-210.
In Eliot in Perspective, ed. Graham Martin (1970).
- Krieger, Murray. "The Critical Legacy of Matthew Arnold: Or, the Strange
Brotherhood of T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards, and Northrop Frye." Southern Review
5 (1969): 457-74.
- Krieger, Murray. The New Apologists for Poetry 1956. Brilliant, definitive
exposition of the Romantic roots of the New Criticism. Focuses on theories
of creativity and of the aesthetic object. Separate chapters on T.E. Hulme,
T.S. Eliot, I.A Richards (2); lots of material on Brooks, Ransom, Tate,
Winters. Table of Contents gives itemized list of what is in every chapter.
- Wellek, Rene. "The Criticism of T.S.Eliot." Sewanne Review 64 (1956):
398-443.
And
Modernism
- Brooker, Jewel Spears. "Transcendence and Return: T.S. Eliot and the Dialectics
of Modernism." South Atlantic Review 59.2 (May 1994): 53-74.
- Sharratt, Bernard. "Eliot: Modernism, Postmodernism, and After. 223-35.
In The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot, ed. A. David Moody (1994).
- MacDonald, Gail. Learning to Be Modern: Pound, Eliot, and the American
University. Oxford UP, 1993. CUL: PS3531 .O82 Z752 1993
- Zubizarreta, John. "T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence: The Relationship and
Influence." English Language Notes 31.1 (Sept. 1993): 61 (12).
- Duvall, John N. "Eliot's Modernism and Brook's New Criticism: Poetic and
Religious THinking." Mississippi Quarterly 46.1 (Winter 1992-3): 23-37.
MLA: 93-1-4365
- Bush, Ronald. "T.S. Eliot and Modernism at the Present Time." 191-204.
In T.S. Eliot: The Modernist in History, ed. Ronald Bush (1991) EKS has
xerox
- Rainey, Lawrence. "The Price of Modernism: Publishing The Waste Land."
91-136. In T.S. Eliot: The Modernist in History, ed. Ronald Bush (1991)
EKS has xerox
- Sultan, Stanley. "Was Modernism Reactionary?" Journal of Modern Literature
17.4 (Spring 1991): 447 (18).
- Menand, Louis. Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context. .ox
1987. Sultan, Stanley. Eliot, Joyce, and Company. NYC: Oxford UP, 1987.
EKS has copy
- Schwarz, Sanford. The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century
Thought. .prn 1985. EKS has copy.
- Brooker, Jewel Spears. "The Case of the Missing Abstraction: Eliot, Frazer,
and Modernism." Massachusetts Review 25 (1984): 539-52.
- Levenson, Michael H. A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary
Doctrine, 1908-1922. .cam 1984. Divided into three parts: Progenitors deals
with Arnold, Huxley, Pater, Babbitt, and Conrad; Provocation with Hulme,
Ford, Pound, Hulme, Husserl, Frege, and Moore; and Consolidation with Pound
and Eliot.
- Materer, Timothy. Vortex: Pound, Eliot, and Lewis. .cor 1978.
- Eagleton, Terry. Exiles and Emigres: Studies in Modern Literature. New
York: Schocken, 1970. Has chapters on Conrad, Waugh, Orwell, Greene, Eliot,
Auden, and Lawrence.
And Contemporary
Cultural/ Marxist Crit
- Lentricchia, Frank. "My Kinsman, T.S. Eliot." Raritan 11.4 (Spring 1992):
1 (23). EKS has xerox
- North, Michael. "Eliot, Lukacs and the Politics of Modernism." 169-90.
In T.S. Eliot: The Modernist in History, ed. Ronald Bush (1991) EKS has
xerox
- Shusterman, Richard. "Reactionary Meets Radical Critique: Eliot and Contemporary
Culture Criticism." 367-94. In T.S. Eliot: Man and Poet. Vol I. Ed. Laura
Cowan (1990). EKS has xerox.
- Eagleton, Terry, "Eliot and a Common Culture." In Eliot in Perspective:
A Symposium, ed. Graham Martin. (1970)
And Myth
- Spurr, David. "Myths of Anthropology: Eliot, Joyce, Levy-Bruhl." PMLA
107.2 (March 1994): 266 (15).
- Manganaro, Marc. "Dissociation in 'Dead Land': The Primitive Mind in the
Early Poetry of T.S. Eliot." 26-40. In T.S. Eliot: An Anthology of Recent
Criticism, ed. Basu, Tapan Kumar. Delhi:Pencraft, 1993. MLA: 93-1-4376
- Manganaro, Marc. Myth, Rhetoric, and the Voice of Authority: A Critique
of Frazer, Eliot, Frye, and Campbell. Yale UP, 05/1992. $30.00 ISBN: 0-300-05194-8
EKS has copy
- Brooker, Jewel Spears. "Substitutes for Religion in the Early Poetry of
T.S. Eliot." 11-26. In The Placing of T.S. Eliot, ed. JSB (1991)
And
Romanticism
- Franklin, George. "Instances of Meeting: Shelley and Eliot: A Study in
Affinity." ELH 61.4 (Winter 1994): 955 (36).
- Riquelme, John. Harmony of Dissonances: T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 12/1990. (R)
- ---. "Aesthetic Values and Processes in Eliot, Arnold, and the Romantics."
277-302. In T.S. Eliot: Man and Poet. Vol I. Ed. Laura Cowan (1990). EKS
has xerox.
- Spurr, David. "Eliot, Modern Poetry, and the Romantic Tradition." 33-38.
In Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker,
(1988).
- Lobb, Edward. T.S. Eliot and the Romantic Critical Tradition. .rkp 1981.
- Sparks, Elisa Kay. "T.S. Eliot: The Critic as St. Peter." Chapter two
of Sons of the Fathers: Critics of Romanticism and Romantic Critics. PhD.
Diss. IU Bloomington, 1979. (R/PC) Copy on Reserve. Goes through all references
to Romantic poets and to Matthew Arnold in Eliot's collected prose and selected
fugitive articles.
- Bornstein, George Jay. Transformations of Romanticism in Yeats, Eliot,
and Stevens. U of Chicago P, 1976. Not in CUL; EKS has copy.
And
Women
- Christ, Carol. "Gender, Voice, and Figuration in Eliot's Early Poetry."
23-40. In T.S. Eliot: The Modernist in History, ed. Ronald Bush (1991) EKS
has xerox
- Gordon, Lyndall. "Eliot and Women." 9-22. In T.S. Eliot: The Modernist
in History, ed. Ronald Bush (1991) EKS has xerox
- Lobb, Edward. "Chamber Music: Eliot's Closed Rooms and Difficult Women."
167- 80. In T.S. Eliot: Man and Poet. Vol I. Ed. Laura Cowan (1990). EKS
has xerox.
- Clark, Stephen H. "Testing the Razor: T.S. Eliot's Poems 1920." In Engendering
the Word: Feminist Essays in Psychosexual Politics, ed. Temma Berg et al
Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1989: 167-89. EKS owns book
- Bentley, Joseph. "Some Notes on Eliot's Gallery of Women." 39-45. In Approaches
to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker, (1988).
(R)
- Pinkey, Tony. Women in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot: A Psychoanalytic Approach.
London: Macmillan, 1984: pp. 18-56. EKS owns book