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1. Eliot, T. S.-Criticism and
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To the memory of Baba (the late H. K. Sen)
 Contents

Notes on the Contributors ix

Editor's Notes xi
Acknowledgements xiii

ARTICLES
From 'Burnt Norton' to 'East Coker': The Passing of the
Unified Sensibility Grover Smith 3
Sustained Stages and States: Eliot's Peculiar
Personae George T. Wright 19
Eliot's Classicism: A Study in Allusional Method and
Design Lois A. Cuddy 27
The poetry does not matter': Four Quartets and the Rhetoric
of Humility Victor P. H. Li 63
The Voices of Eliot's 'Preludes': Listening Closely to the
Poem and the Poet Lawrence B. Gamache 87
Tzara in The Waste Land Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio 103
Wilde and Eliot Richard Shusterman 117
Arnold Bennett and T. S. Eliot: What Happened to Sweeney
Agonistes? Hans Hauge 145

OCCASIONAL MONOGRAPH
The Function of 'Prufrock' for Criticism Stanley Sultan 155

REVIEW ESSAY
Further Notes on the 'Bradleian Vein' in Eliot Studies
Armin Paul Frank 199

REVIEWS
Carlos Baker: The Echoing Green: Romanticism, Modernism,
and the Phenomena of Transference in Poetry Brian John 215
Eloise Knapp Hay: T. S. Eliot's Negative Way J. Birje-Patil 219

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Edward Lobb: T. S. Eliot and the Romantic Critical Tradition,

and Rajnath: T. S. Eliot's Theory of Poetry: A Study of the
Changing Critical Ideas in the Development of His Prose and
Poetry Rob Jackaman 222
Stoddard Martin: Wagner to 'The Waste Land': A Study of the
Relationship of Wagner to English Literature Raymond
Furness 226
Grover Smith: The Waste Land Burton Raffel 228
Leonard Unger: Eliot's Compound Ghost: Influence and
Confluence Cleanth Brooks 230
 Notes on the Contributors

J. Birje-Patil is Professor and Head of the Department of English

at the University of Baroda, India. Among his many publications
are books on Eliot and Shakespeare.
Cleanth Brooks, the distinguished scholar and critic of Modern
literature, is Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University.
Lois A. Cuddy is an Associate Professor of English at the University
of Rhode Island. She has published several articles on Eliot and is
the author of a book on his poetry.

Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio is an Associate Professor at the Brooklyn

College of the City University of New York.

Armin Paul Frank is Professor of English and American Literature

at the University of Gottingen. His publications include a book on
Eliot's literary criticism, articles on Eliot in Canadian, German and
American journals, and three Eliot bibliographies. He is the
Contributing Editor for Continental Europe of the Yeats Eliot Review.
Raymond Furness is Professor of German at the University of
St Andrews. Among his publications are Expressionism and The
Twentieth Century, 1890-1945, the latter a history of Modernism in
German literature.
Lawrence B. Gamache is an Associate Professor of English at the
University of Ottawa. Most of his earlier publications deal with the
works of D. H. Lawrence. He is co-editor of a volume of critical
essays entitled The Modernists: Study of a Literary Phenomenon.

Hans Hauge teaches English at the University of Aarhus in

Denmark. He has previously taught at the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Rob Jackaman teaches English at the University of Canterbury in
New Zealand. He has published essays on Yeats, Pound, Dylan
Thomas, David Gascoyne, Ted Hughes, and on surrealism. He is
also the author of a number of books of poetry.

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Brian John is Professor of English at McMaster University, Ontario,

where he is also the Director of Graduate Studies. Among his
publications is Supreme Fictions, a study of Blake, Carlyle, Yeats
and Lawrence. Professor John's special interest is in the connections
between Romanticism and Modernism.
Victor P.H. Li obtained his doctorate at the University of Cambridge
and taught for some years at the National University of Singapore.
He is an Assistant Professor of English at Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has published a number of essays on
Eliot.
Burton Raffel, Professor of English at the University of Denver
and the Editor of the Denver Quarterly, is a poet, scholar and
translator. His book-length study of Eliot was published in the
United States in 1982.
Richard Shusterman, is the author of The Object of Literary Criticism
(Humanities Press, 1987), T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism
(Columbia University Press, 1988) and numerous articles on philos-
ophy and literary theory. He has edited Analytic Aesthetics
(Blackwell, 1989) and is Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Temple University, Philadelphia.
Grover Smith is Professor of English at Duke University. Among
his publications are the authoritative edition of the letters of Aldous
Huxley and the indispensable T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays: A Study
in Sources and Meaning. He is a Consulting Editor of the Yeats Eliot
Review.
Stanley Sultan is Professor of English at Clark University, Boston.
His many publications include The Argument of'Ulysses', 'Ulysses',
'The Waste Land', and Modernism, and Yeats at His Last. A companion
essay on 'Prufrock' by Professor Sultan has already appeared in
Journal of Modern Literature (March 1985).
George T. Wright, who has published extensively on Renaissance
and Modern literature, is Professor of English at the University of
Minnesota. Twice winner of the annual William Riley Parker Prize
for the best essay published in PMLA, Professor Wright has also
written The Poet in the Poem: The Personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound.
 Editor's Notes

Although a new publication, the T. S. Eliot Annual proposes to

continue the work begun in 1974 by the T. S. Eliot Review (now
the Yeats Eliot Review). The annual publishes research-based essays
on all aspects of Eliot studies and reviews books of interest to Eliot
scholars. It seeks to be international in its representation and
includes works by both established and young scholars. Notes
about forthcoming publications, works in progress, conferences,
special library acquisitions and so forth are included at the discretion
of the Editor.

The Library of the University of Gottingen has announced the

publication of the following volume: Armin Paul Frank, T. S. Eliot
Criticism and Scholarship in German: A Descriptive Survey, 1923-1980,
With Reference to the Holdings of the Niedersiichsiche Staats- und
Universitatsbibliothek at Gottingen. (Vol. 20 of Arbeiten aus
Niedersiichsischen Staats- und Universitiitsbibliothek Gottingen.) Ed.
Erika Hulpke. 226 pp. DM 30. - Copies are available from Der
Direktor, Niedersachsische Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek,
Prinzenstrasse 1, D-3400 Gottingen, Germany (F.R.).

The T. S. Eliot Society

The Society, located in StLouis, Missouri, the birthplace of Eliot,
has been in operation for several years. Its members celebrate the
poet's birthday every year in September at which time an invited
speaker delivers the annual Eliot Memorial Lecture. Past Eliot
Memorial Lecturers have included Grover Smith and Ronald
Schuchard. A special Centenary Celebration was mounted by the
Society in 1988. Inquiries about the Society may be directed to Earl
K. Holt III, Treasurer, T. S. Eliot Society, 5007Waterman Boulevard,
StLouis, Missouri, 63108, USA.

Postscript
For reasons beyond the editor's control, this inaugural issue of the
Annual is appearing in print after a considerable delay owing to
technical considerations. The editor thanks the contributors for

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their courtesy and patience and offers them his sincere apologies.

* * *
Opinions expressed in signed contributions are not necessarily
endorsed by the Annual, its Editor or its publishers.
 Acknowledgements

The editor, the contributors and the publishers wish to thank the
following who have kindly given permission to reproduce the
copyright material:
Faber & Faber Limited, Publishers and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Inc. for permission to use excerpts from SELECTED ESSAYS by
T. S. Eliot, copyright 1950 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.;
renewed 1978 by Esme Valerie Eliot; for fragments from COLLEC-
TED POEMS 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; copyright© 1963, 1964 by T. S. Eliot; for
lines from 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', and 'Little Gidding' in
FOUR QUARTETS, copyright 1943 by T. S. Eliot; renewed 1971 by
Esme Valerie Eliot.
Faber & Faber should also be thanked for permission to use
various very short quotes from: T. S. Eliot, DANTE (London: Faber
& Faber, 1929); T. S. Eliot, 'Introduction', SELECTED POEMS OF
EZRA POUND (London: Faber & Faber, 1928); KNOWLEDGE
AND EXPERIENCE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF F. H. BRADLEY
(London: Faber & Faber, 1964); THE COMPLETE POEMS AND
PLAYS OFT. S. ELIOT, (London: Faber & Faber, 1969); THE USE
OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM (London: Faber &
Faber, 1964); ON POETRY AND POETS (London: Faber & Faber,
1957); from TO CRITICISE THE CRITIC (London: Faber & Faber,
1978); quotations from T. S. Eliot 'The Function of a Literary
Review', The Criterion, 1923; T. S. Eliot, 'Studies in Contemporary
Criticism', The Egoist, 1918; and T. S. Eliot, 'A Sceptical Patrician',
The Atheneum, 1919; T. S. Eliot, 'Turgenev', The Egoist, 1917; T. S.
Eliot (Crites), 'A Commentary', The Criterion, 1925.

Every effort has been made to trace all the copyright-holders but if
any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be
pleased to make necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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