Description: Preceding the T.S. Eliot centenary celebrations in the year 1988, the spate of criticism on his works etched out his land mark presence on the terrain of English and American letters. Notably, the flow of reappraisals and reassessments of the author of The Waste Land has continued unabated during the 1990s. This anthology brings together some of the most significant of these critical studies published on the T.S. Eliot oeuvre during the 1980s and the 1990s. Drawn from internationally acknowledge journals and thoroughly researched book projects, the material collated in the anthology examines the entire range of Eliot's multifarious creative engagements, especially his early, middle and late poetry, his poetic drams, and his prose essays. The contributions bring to bear on the texts of Eliot a wide variety of literary theories and ideological perspectives, including neo-modernist view-points of structuralism, post-structuralism, and cultural materialism. Also, several of these essays make for comparative studies, probing the achievements and limitations of Eliot vis-à-vis other British and American authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume offers a fairly large number of fresh insights into the complex mind and art of the author, variously regarded as the 'flagbearer of his age' and the greatest cultural reactionary of all times.

Contributors: Tapan Kumar Basu, Jonathan Bishop, Jewel Spears Brooker, Ronald Bush, Denis Donoghue, Sonjoy Dutta-Roy, Melissa A. Eiles, Armin Paul Frank, Linda Leavell, Marc Manganaro, RamaNair, Rajnath, Audrey T. Rodgers, Virendra K. Roy, Vinod Sena, Stanley Sultan

Editor: Tapan Kumar Basu teaches English and American literature at Hindu College and in the University of Delhi. Co-author of Khaki Shorts, Saffron Flags (Orient Longman, 1993), he has contributed severals articles to scholarly journals and has researched extensively on Black American Literature. He was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Department of English, Yale University in 1988-89. His current interest include, among others, American fiction and culture criticism.