The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature, provide a different and more complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight essays are: "The Waste Land Fifty Years After," by A. Walton Litz; "The Urban Apocalypse," by Hugh Kenner; "The First Waste Land ' by Richard Ellmann;" The Waste Land Paris 1922," by Helen Gardner; "New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land," by Robert Langbaum; "Precipitating Eliot," by Robert M. Adams; "Fear in the Way: The Design of Eliot's Drama," by Michael Goldman;...

The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature, provide a different and more complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight essays are: "The Waste Land Fifty Years After," by A. Walton Litz; "The Urban Apocalypse," by Hugh Kenner; "The First Waste Land ' by Richard Ellmann;" The Waste Land Paris 1922," by Helen Gardner; "New Modes of Characterization in The Waste Land," by Robert Langbaum; "Precipitating Eliot," by Robert M. Adams; "Fear in the Way: The Design of Eliot's Drama," by Michael Goldman;...