In his old age T. S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the
American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest
influence on his poetry. This is the first book to explore in
detail how Eliot's writings at once preserved and reacted against
his complex American heritage: his intellectually and socially
prominent family, their strong Unitarian culture and their
experience in nineteenth-century St Louis and Boston. Besides
demonstrating how Eliot's preoccupation with theatricality and
self-consciousness descends from a line of American writers with
similar impulses, the book pursues the theme of doubleness in
rhetoric and the self and traces the influence on Eliot of the
philosopher F. H. Bradley. Analysing major poems from 'Prufrock'
through The Waste Land, Sigg draws upon Eliot's early philosophical
writing, essays and reviews to reveal Eliot's early poetry both as
a distinct entity and as a stage in his development.
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