T.S. Eliot remains one of the most widely read poets of the 20 century, and perhaps the greatest. There has, however, been quite a dearth of critical material on his early poetry which has largely perplexed literary critics. This book provides, for the first time, a lucid exposition of Prufrock and Other Observations 1917 and Poems 1920. Viewing the poems in the larger context of the poet-critic’s life and works, it repudiates a great many assumptions about his ...
