A Critical Study of T.S. Eliot: Eliot at 100 Years

Thomas Steams, Eliot, a universal poet and dramatist, and Nobel laureate, was one of the most daring innovators of the 20th century poetry. He achieved the most dominant positing in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world. T.S. Eliot represents the high water-mark of the modernist movement in European literature which affected art and culture not only within the English-speaking world, or the European lands, but around the four comers of the globe. He was a poet, a dramatist and a critic of literature and society. He dominated the literary and cultural scene during most of the twentieth century. Though the world is now said to have entered into, what is usually called, the post-modernist stage, yet modernism is still relevant. Whether post-modernism is considered to be a break with, or the continuation of, modernism, the latter occupies a central place in the whole dialectics of the cultural movement of the 20th century. The present Volume is an in-depth critical study of the whole oeuvre of T.S. Eliot by diverse hands. This is a must for the students, teachers, scholars of culture and modern English Literature.