ELIOT, T.S

Additional reading Surveys of his life and career include Lyndall Gordon, Eliot's Early Years (1977), and Eliot's New Life (1988); Peter Ackroyd, T.S. Eliot (1984); and Alzina Stone Dale, T.S. Eliot, the Philosopher Poet (1988), with a discussion of his spiritual growth. Allen Tate (ed.), T.S. Eliot: The Man and His Work (1966), is a retrospective symposium and includes personal reminiscence and criticism by 26 critics. Three distinguished works on Eliot are Elizabeth Drew, T.S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry (1950), a Jungian interpretation of Eliot's symbolism; F.O. Matthiessen, The Achievement of T.S. Eliot, 3rd ed. (1958), with a supplementary chapter by C.L. Barber covering the works written after Matthiessen's death in 1950; and Helen Gardner, The Art of T.S. Eliot (1949, reprinted 1979), a brilliantly perceptive study. Other valuable studies are Cleanth Brooks, Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939, reissued 1979), the most perceptive analytic commentary on The Waste Land; Hugh Kenner, The Invisible Poet (1959, reissued 1969); David E. Jones, The Plays of T.S. Eliot (1960); E. Martin Browne, The Making of T.S. Eliot's Plays (1969), a work indispensable to the understanding of Eliot's methods of dramatic composition; Grover Smith, T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays, 2nd ed. (1974), and The Waste Land (1983); Stephen Spender, Eliot (1975, also published as T.S. Eliot, 1976); David Newton-deMolina (compiler and ed.), The Literary Criticism of T.S. Eliot: New Essays (1977); and Ronald Bush, T.S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style (1984). Michael Grant (ed.), T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage, 2 vol. (1982), collects contemporary reviews of his poetry and plays. Graham Clarke (ed.), T.S. Eliot: Critical Assessments, 4 vol. (1990), partially overlaps the previous work but also contains reviews and critical essays on Eliot's works of criticism.