T. S. Eliot is one of the most celebrated twentieth-century poets
and one whose work is practically synonymous with perplexity. Eliot
is perceived as extremely challenging due to the multi-lingual
references and fragmentation we find in his poetry and his
recurring literary allusions to writers including Dante,
Shakespeare, Marvell, Baudelaire and Conrad. There is an additional
difficulty for today's readers that Eliot probably didn't envisage:
the widespread unfamiliarity with the Christian belief and culture
that his work becomes increasingly steeped in. Steve Ellis
introduces Eliot's work by using his extensive prose writings to
illuminate the poetry. As a major critic, as well as poet, Eliot
was highly conscious of the challenges his poetry set, of its
relation and difference to the work of previous poets, and of the
ways in which the activity of reading was problematised by his
work, so by taking his prose as a starting point helps to clarify
his poetic writing. The guide also offers an overview of key
critical debates concerning Eliot's work.
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