Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1 Life Early life, 1888-1914 A bohemian life, 1915-1922 Man of letters, 1923-1945 The sage, 1945-1965 Chapter 2 Contexts Early influences France England Religion Philosophy Culture and society Romanticism and classicism A sense of the past Chapter 3 Works Early poems "Portrait of a Lady" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" "The Hollow Men" "Gerontion" Poems 1920 The Waste Land The Ariel poems and Ash-Wednesday Plays Cultural criticism Four Quartets Reevaluation Chapter 4 Critical reception Notes The works of T. S. Eliot Further reading Index
