At long last, T. S. Eliot's prose, together in this definitive
8-volume collection. This monumental eight-volume edition of modern
literature brings together, for the first time in print, all of the
vastly influential prose writings of Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot,
the poet and dramatist whose theories and criticism shaped
twentieth-century thought and literature around the world. This
complete collection provides access to over 6,000 pages of Eliot's
nonfiction prose writings on literature, philosophy, religion,
cultural theory, world politics, and other topics of urgent and
enduring import. It includes all of the essays that he collected in
his lifetime, but also more than 1,000 uncollected, unrecorded, or
unpublished items, many of which were missing or inaccessible for
decades. From the formative "Interpretation of Primitive Ritual"
(1913), written in graduate school at Harvard, to the summative "To
Criticize the Critic" (1961), the Complete Prose offers readers
full access to the immense scope and variety of Eliot's works in
their biographical, historical, and cultural context. The
individual volumes have received the highest praise from prominent
scholars: volume II won the Modernist Studies Association's 2015
Book Prize for an Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection, while
volumes V and VI were jointly awarded the 2017 Prize for a
Scholarly Edition by the Modern Language Association. They display
"uniform excellence," wrote the Awards Committee: "Their thorough
textual introductions, sophisticated annotations merging
intelligent commentary with brevity and completeness, make the
volumes a pleasure to read . . . and enlarge our understanding of
Eliot as the public intellectual at work." Together with recent
editions of the Poems, the eight volumes of Letters, and the
sensational opening in 2020 of Eliot's letters to Emily Hale, the
Complete Prose brings us to the threshold of a new age for the
study of Eliot and the modernist writers of his day. Project MUSE
is home to the fully searchable online edition of The Complete
Prose of T. S. Eliot. Volume 1: Apprentice Years, 1905-1918, edited
by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard Volume 2: The Perfect
Critic, 1919-1926, edited by Anthony Cuda and Ronald Schuchard
Volume 3: Literature, Politics, Belief, 1927-1929, edited by
Frances Dickey, Jennifer Formichelli, and Ronald Schuchard Volume
4: English Lion, 1930-1933, edited by Jason Harding and Ronald
Schuchard Volume 5: Tradition and Orthodoxy, 1934-1939, edited by
Iman Javadi, Ronald Schuchard, and Jayme Stayer Volume 6: The War
Years, 1940-1946, edited by David E. Chinitz and Ronald Schuchard
Volume 7: A European Society, 1947-1953, edited by Iman Javadi and
Ronald Schuchard Volume 8: Still and Still Moving, 1954-1965,
edited by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard
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