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)

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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."

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Anthologies

(*means Table of Contents has been xeroxed and is in TSE BIBLIO notebook in EKS's office)

• *Moody, David, ed. The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot. Cambridge UP, 11/1994.
  • Excellent collection of new essays. Contains valuable bibliographical essay by Brooker.
• *Brooker, Jewel Spears, ed. The Placing of T.S. Eliot. Columbia MO: U of Missouri P, 1991. (R)
• *Bush, Ronald, ed. T.S. Eliot: The Modernist in History. Cambridge UP, 1991.
  • Not in CUL. Some essays xeroxed. Sections on women, The Waste Land, and modernism.
• *Cuddy, Lois and David Hirsch. Critical Essays on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Macmillan, 06/1991.
  • Not in CUL. T of C and some essays xeroxed. See Eliot notebook for ToC.
• *Brooker, Jewel Spears and Joseph Bentley. Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1990.
  • CUL: PS3509 .L43 W3634 1990 (R)
• *Cowan, Laura, ed. T.S.Eliot: Man and Poet Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1990.
  • Not in CUL. T0C and some essays xeroxed.
• *Brooker, Jewel Spears, ed. Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays. NYC: MLA, 1988. (R)
  • Collection of essays about teaching Eliot. Essays tend to be short but very good. Excellent guide to materials. Well chosen selection of essays on approaches. Several essays on Prufrock; 7 on Waste Land; three on Four Quartets
• Bloom, Harold, ed. T.S. Eliot. NY: Chelsea House, 1985.
  • CUL? if not in CUL -->ILL
• *Olney, James, ed. T.S. Eliot. Anniversary Issue of Southern Review (1985): 873-1174.
  • Many reminiscences. A number of essays about TSE's relation to America, including one by Cleanth Brooks about the South; a symposium of poets talking about TSE; and photos of TSE wearing a cowboy hat.
• *Moody, A. David, ed. The Waste Land in Different Voices. NY: St. Martin's, 1974. (R)
• *Litz, A. Walton, ed. Eliot in His Time: Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Waste Land. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1973.
• *Sullivan, Shelia, ed. Critics on T.S. Eliot. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1973. EKS owns copy.
  • About one essay per each major poem and each play, except for two on 4Q.
• *Martin, Graham, ed. Eliot in Perspective: A Symposium. NY: Macmillan, 1970. (R)
  • Excellent collection, especially good on criticism.
• *Bergonzi, Bernard. T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets: A Casebook. NY: Macmillan, 1969.
  • Check CUL; EKS owns a copy Contains statements by Eliot, Reviews and early criticism and good collection of classic essays by Helen Gardner, Donald Davie, Hugh Kenner, C. K. Stead, Denis Donoghue, etc.
• *Cox, C.B. and Arnold P. Hinchliffe, eds. T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land: A Casebook. London: Macmillan, 1969.
  • Check CUL. EKS owns a copy. Good collection of old, classic essays, including extracts from TSE, early reviews and reactions and early essays by Edmund Wilson, F.O. Matthiessen, Cleanth Brooks, Frank Kermode, etc.
• *Martin, Jay, ed. A Collection of Critical Essays on The Waste Land. Twentieth-Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
  • comments on WL's relation to modern world; essays on individual sections; classic New Critical assessments of whole poem.
• *Tate, Allen, ed. T.S. Eliot: The Man and His Work. NY: Delacorte, 1966.
  • Mixture of Memoirs and comments by New Critics
• *Kenner, Hugh, ed. T.S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth-Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
  • Collects early, classic essays and comments; a lot of New Critics
• *Unger, Leonard, ed. T.S. Eliot: A Selected Critique. NY: Rinehart, 1948.
  • Comments by many contemporaries including E.M. Forster, F.R. Leavis, Yeats, and many New Critics.

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  Philosophy & Intellectual Development

• Shusterman, Richard. "Eliot as Philosopher." 31-47. In The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot, ed. A. David Moody (1994).
• Wright, Glenn P. "Bradleyan Idealism and Eliot's Cast of Mind." 66-71. In Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker, (1988).
• Margolis, John D. T.S. Eliot's Intellectual Development (1972) Good treatment of early influences and education, including Bradley.
• Wollheim, Richard. "Eliot and F. H. Bradley: An Account." 169-93. In Eliot in Perspective, ed. Graham Martin (1970).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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)

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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.

 

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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

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