Introduction


T. S. Eliot
Widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest modern poets, Eliot has maintained an influence on literature some critics claim is unequaled by any other twentieth-century writer. While Eliot often is associated with the Symbolist-metaphysical tradition, his bold experiments with form, phrasing, and tone helped usher in the Modernist period in American and English letters. In fact, his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” published in its entirety for the first time in Eliot's first volume of poetry in 1917, often is credited by critics as being the first Modernist poem. -- T. S. Eliot Criticism
 

Recommended Resources

  1. Critical Survey of Poetry
  2. Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century
  3. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Study Guide
  4. The Waste Land Lesson Plans
  5. The Waste Land Study Guide

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  1. Ash Wednesday - Book Review
  2. Critical Survey of Drama
  3. Critical Survey of Poetry
  4. Cyclopedia of World Authors
  5. Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century
  6. Four Quartets - Book Review
  7. Four Quartets - Literary Places
  8. Inventions of the March Hare
  9. Modernism Study Guide (eNotes)
  10. Murder in the Cathedral - Book Review
  11. Murder in the Cathedral - Literary Characters
  12. Murder in the Cathedral - Literary Places
  13. Murder in the Cathedral - Masterplots
  14. Murder in the Cathedral Study Guide
  15. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats quickNotes
  16. Selected Essays, 1917-1932 Study Guide
  17. T. S. Eliot - Identities and Issues in Literature
  18. T. S. Eliot Criticism
  19. The Cocktail Party - Literary Characters
  20. The Cocktail Party - Literary Places
  21. The Cocktail Party - Masterplots
  22. The Cocktail Party Study Guide
  23. The Confidential Clerk - Literary Characters
  24. The Confidential Clerk - Literary Places
  25. The Elder Statesman - Literary Characters
  26. The Elder Statesman - Literary Places
  27. The Family Reunion - Literary Characters
  28. The Family Reunion - Literary Places
  29. The Letters of T. S. Eliot
  30. The Letters of T. S. Eliot
  31. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Identities and Issues in Literature
  32. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Book Review
  33. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Contemporary Literary Criticism
  34. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Masterplots II: Poetry
  35. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Poetry Criticism
  36. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Study Guide
  37. The Oxford Companion to American Literature Article on Murder in the Cathedral
  38. The Oxford Companion to American Literature Article on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
  39. The Oxford Companion to American Literature Article on The Cocktail Party
  40. The Oxford Companion to American Literature Article on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  41. The Oxford Companion to American Literature Article on The Waste Land
  42. The Oxford Companion to English Literature Article on Murder in the Cathedral
  43. The Oxford Companion to English Literature Article on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
  44. The Oxford Companion to English Literature Article on T. S. Eliot
  45. The Oxford Companion to English Literature Article on The Waste Land
  46. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays Article on Murder in the Cathedral
  47. The Oxford Dictionary of Plays Article on The Cocktail Party
  48. The Waste Land - Book Review
  49. The Waste Land - Identities and Issues in Literature
  50. The Waste Land - Literary Places
  51. The Waste Land - Masterplots
  52. The Waste Land Lesson Plans
  53. The Waste Land Study Guide
  54. Tom & Viv (1994)
  55. Verses on the Death of T. S. Eliot - Masterplots II: Poetry